People keep calling it National Poet Day or International Poetry Day.
It’s not.
It’s SACRAMENTO POETRY DAY.
JUST THE CITY.
JUST OUR POETS.
OUR DAY.
NEXT WEEK.
That’s why we wrote a curriculum with SACRAMENTO poets to put in SACRAMENTO schools and created a contest for SACRAMENTO youth and collected poems from SACRAMENTO poets to document SACRAMENTO’S literary history while honoring SACRAMENTO poets that make it the poetry capital of California:
T E A C H E R S
You can download the full Sacramento Poetry Day curriculum here or at the website.
We’re teaching not only literary devices, but also emotional intelligence and mental health via poetry.
Our kids have been through so much. Don’t they deserve another tool to help them process and thrive?
B O N U S
For those who’ve asked:
Marc Kelly Smith,
creator of the poetry slam,
with a little history lesson:
—andru defeye
Flommist Andru Defeye is the Guerrilla Poet Laureate of Sacramento. Copyright © 2022 Andru Defeye.
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