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How Poetry Serves Civic Life

2025/4/3
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Tess Taylor: 我通过创作关于埃尔塞里托的诗歌，重新审视并爱上了我的家乡。创作关于埃尔塞里托的诗歌帮助我以新的视角看待它，即使儿时我对它并不喜爱，现在我也爱上了它。在我的家乡埃尔塞里托推广诗歌项目，让我有机会回馈社区，并与年轻一代建立联系。通过与学生们一起创作诗歌，我发现他们对诗歌的热情和创造力，这让我深受感动。艺术项目对学生的想象力、同理心和整体发展至关重要，不应该被忽视。诗歌能够促进跨文化理解和交流。诗歌创作能够赋予人们力量，并帮助他们讲述自己的故事。马·辛文是一位才华横溢且充满爱心和幽默感的诗人，她是我在工作中重要的伙伴和朋友。 Joseph Rios: 弗雷斯诺是一个充满诗人、移民和劳动人民的土地，它比人们想象的更美丽。弗雷斯诺诗歌选集旨在通过连接当地作家和读者，从而增强社区认同感。诗歌能够反映移民社区的经验和挑战。诗歌创作能够赋予学生力量，并帮助他们肯定自己的母语。萨拉·博尔哈斯是一位杰出的诗人，也是我的亲戚。 Tongo Eisen-Martin: 我的诗歌反映了旧金山的复杂性和矛盾性，包括其社会和政治现实。在学校被占领期间，学生们积极参与并共同创造了一种解放性的学习环境。学生们充分意识到学校占领的政治意义，并积极参与其中。跨代诗歌工作坊旨在打破个体主义，促进集体认同感和同理心。桂冠诗人的角色存在于晚期帝国主义的矛盾之中，其未来取决于其如何服务于社区。桂冠诗人的作用在于维护和保护人们的想象力，特别是那些致力于解放性项目的想象力。珍妮·林是一位才华横溢的诗人，她将成为旧金山下一任桂冠诗人。

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Three California poet laureates—Joseph Rios, Tess Taylor, and Tongo Eisen-Martin—received $50,000 each to fund literary projects in their cities. Their projects include new poetry curriculums, workshops, and local anthologies, aiming to cultivate community engagement and empathy through poetry.
  • $50,000 awards from the Academy of American Poetry to three California Poets Laureates
  • Funding literary projects in their cities: new poetry curriculums, multi-generational workshops, and local anthologies
  • Focus on creating spaces for reflection, connection, and empathy through poetry

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Three California poet laureates, Fresno’s Joseph Rios, El Cerrito’s Tess Taylor and San Francisco’s former poet laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, received $50,000 from the Academy of American Poetry to fund literary projects in their cities. Their projects include new poetry curriculums, multi-generational workshops, and creating local anthologies. In addition to finding the next generation of poets, the laureates see their mission as creating spaces for people to reflect, connect and build empathy. We talk with them about why we need poetry now and how the artform serves civic life.

Guests:

**Tongo Eisen-Martin, **former San Francisco Poet Laureate

**Tess Taylor, **El Cerrito Poet Laureate, edited the poetry anthology, "Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and; the Hands that Tend Them"

**Joseph Rios, **Fresno Poet Laureate, author, "Shadowboxing: poems and impersonations"

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