Poetry In Action 2022: A Youth Poetry Reading and Conversation on Equity and Compassion

[Larry Robinson]

Poetry In Action 2022: A Youth Poetry Reading and Conversation on Equity and Compassion.
 
We’re ready to start “recruiting” teens to read at the open mic!   We need your help to spread the word to teens!!
 
Please forward, post, and share widely this email and the attached flyer with any youth you think would be interested in participating, with schools, teachers, poets, and/or anyone who will help us spread the word.  A snapshot of the information is included below.  They do not need to live in Sonoma County to participate.
 
This is a Sonoma County United In Kindness event, in cooperation with AAPI Coalition of the North Bay
https://www.facebook.com/SonomaCountyUnitedinKindness/ <https://www.facebook.com/SonomaCountyUnitedinKindness/>
AAPI Coalition of the North Bay - Home | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/AAPIC.NB/>
 
 Hosted by:  Ella Wen, 2021 – 2022 Sonoma County Youth Poet Laureate
 
When: Saturday, April 23, 5:00 – 6:00pm – a Zoom event
 
Who: Teens, age 13 - 19
 
What:  This event will include a live open mic; providing an opportunity to read an original poem, or one written by any poet of choice.   Limited to two poems or up to two minutes.  “Family friendly” language poems please.   Closed video will be an option; signed parent authorization required for ages 13 – 17 (the form is attached)
 
Topic/Suggested prompts:  What do you want to say about equity and compassion?  What do equity and compassion mean to you?  How have you experienced them in your life?  How do you practice them in your life?  What power do they have in our world?  How do they relate to tolerance, diversity, unity, social justice, kindness, and equality?  Say it through the power of poetry!!
 
How:  SIGN UP IN ADVANCE FOR OPEN MIC – DEADLINE: MONDAY, APRIL 4
Email YouthPoetry-UIK at InterfaithSonoma.org <mailto:YouthPoetry-UIK at InterfaithSonoma.org> to sign up.  A practice session will be scheduled prior to the event – date to be announced.
 
Incentives:  A cash/gift card prize and Certificate of Participation for anyone who reads during open mic.
 
Why: United In Kindness hopes to provide a supportive forum and public platform, designed and hosted by and for Sonoma County youth, ages 13 – 19, to write, present, and have conversation about the topics of equity and compassion, through the art of poetry, with a focus on the practice, experience, meaning of, reflection upon, and/or power of equity and compassion  -- on a human scale, in the US, and in their day-to-day lives.  To include the topics of inclusion, tolerance, unity, social justice, kindness, and equality.  To engage youth in a conversation of equity and compassion…through the power of poetry.  In celebration of April – National Poetry month.
 
Thank you again for helping us spread the word!  Remember…deadline to sign up for open mic is MONDAY, APRIL 4.
 
On behalf of the United In Kindness Poetry in Action committee,
Liz Larew
YouthPoetry-UIK at InterfaithSonoma.org <mailto:YouthPoetry-UIK at InterfaithSonoma.org>
 
 
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