Saturday night Youth Speaks filled the San Francisco Opera House (that's 3,200 seats!) with poets, poetry lovers and poetry supporters. The event was the 'final slam' in a series of slams held around Northern California. Invited by Adam's colleague from Kapor Enterprises, Inc., Stephen DeBerry, I ran into Beth Lisick at the VIP reception. Beth will be the 'talent' for WNBA- SF's 40th Anniversary Gala at the St. Francis on June 7th. From the box, the kids looked fantastic. Ranging from age 14-19 they reflected the bay's multi-culti landscape beautifully. The poetry ranged from the sublime to the rhetorical but as the MC stated: This is not about victory, about winning. Writing the poem is the victory." Talk about teaching kids about the value of process. Also, over the weekend, Writers Corps. were at Intersection getting the same royal treatment. Their evening included readings by well known poets Linda-Watanabe McFerrin and Jack Hirshman, San Francisco Poet Laureate. Thank goodness for National Poetry Month!
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