Program Type:
Featured, Miss Breed, Citizenship and Immigration, Community Engagement, Cultural Appreciation, Literature, Local Author, Performing ArtsAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
This is an in-person event at the San Diego Central Library. Masks are required for unvaccinated patrons and social distancing protocol will be followed.
During World War II, heroic San Diego librarian Clara Breed exchanged hundreds of letters with young Japanese Americans in concentration camps, serving as a reminder of the possibility for decency and justice in a troubled world.
Join 14 of San Diego’s best poets including the City’s inaugural Poet Laureate, Ron Salisbury, for an afternoon of restorative poetry. Poets will read and perform poems written specifically for this current historical moment of deep national reflection and a deadly pandemic which has locked down our lives and created isolation and fear.
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This is a San Diego poetry and spoken word summit of the highest order featuring Poet Laureate Salisbury and a diversity of voices including Ant Black, Karla Cordero, Sharon Elise, Rudy Francisco, Olga Garcia, Michael Klam, Viet Mai, Katie Manning, Kai Sakura Pellici and daughter Chieko Sato, Robt O'Sullivan Schleith, Gill Sotu, Jeff Walt, Ted Washington, and Ying Wu.
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This poetry fest is part of the program series: The Rebellious Miss Breed: San Diego Public Library and the Japanese American Incarceration. This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a partner of the NEH. Visit calhum.org.