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Photos from Silicon Valley Reads Art & Immigration Event
Earlier in March, I had the honor and pleasure of reading with my friends, past and present Poets Laureate in Santa Clara County, and wonderful wonderful teen poets. The students read their poems on...
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My Adventures with Poetry Out Loud
I had the honor to serve at the judges table for the State Championships for POL again this year. Click through here to read about my adventures. There were some great old huge photos on the wall of...
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Poetry Workshop for Teens at Cupertino Library
Please join me and my friend David Perez, the current Santa Clara County PL, this Thursday evening at the Cupertino Library for a poetry workshop. Celebrate National Poetry Month with us! I’ll warm up...
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Poems from Teen Poetry Workshop
As part of my April activities, I co-hosted a workshop for teens at the Cupertino Library with David Perez. Read about the fun we had and read the poems written by three students who joined us.
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Poetry at the Cherry Blossom Festival
Tomorrow is the Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival, at Memorial Park. The festival is both days, Saturday April 25 and Sunday April 26, but I’ll only be there on Saturday, with my poetry booth and my...
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Poems and Photos from the Cherry Blossom Festival
What a great day I had at the Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival yesterday. I posted all my photos on Facebook, and you can see them at this link. David Perez, Erica Goss and I did our magic with...
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Code Poetry Hack-a-Slam Success!
It was our first ever Cupertino Code Poetry Hack-a-thon and Slam. We had no idea what we would happen. But, in the end, plenty of people showed up, and we slammed six poems at the end of three hours of...
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Reading at Sunday Assembly
One of the joys of being the city’s Poet Laureate is that your name gets circulated among poetry lovers all over the county. I had the honor last month of being invited to read some of my poetry as...
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KKUP Interview and Poems
Did you know Cupertino has it’s own public radio station? KKUP (FM 91.5) is a sweet little station filled with volunteers and subscribers who broadcast out of a funky studio in East San Jose. Last...
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Adventures at the Silicon Valley STEAM Festival
In one of my other poetry guises, as a California Poets in the Schools poet/teacher, I hosted a poetry play booth at the Silicon Valley STEAM Festival yesterday. We had hundreds of kids and parents...
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October 2015 Plans
October 2015 will be full of great poetry-related events! October 8, Thursday: Write Your First Poem workshop October 16, Friday: Peninsula Literary ( Jennifer Swanton Brown, Featured Reader) — check...
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Write Your First Poem (or Your Second…)
Come to the Cupertino Library Story Room, Thursday evening, October 8 at 7 pm to join a friendly, relaxed group of people who are not poetry experts but love to write poems. I hope this means you. If...
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Three Favorite Books — Sponsored by the Cupertino Library
Check ’em out here!! My most favorite book of poetry for children isn’t in the Cupertino Library, being quite old and in a extinct edition. You can see from the image below that it’s quite tattered....
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Cupertino Poem for Diwali
I was delighted to take on the challenge of writing a poem to help celebrate Diwali in Cupertino. The Chamber of Commerce hosted a huge Diwali Festival in Cupertino’s Memorial Park on Saturday, October...
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Photos from Cupertino Diwali Festival
October 17, 2015 was a great day! I wrote a poem and read it from the main stage. (Wow, that was an experience, sandwiched between children singing and dancing and very lovely ladies in their costumes...
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Write Your First Poem
One of Jennifer Swanton Brown’s last events as Cupertino Poet Laureate was the “Write Your First Poem” workshop, held Thursday, October 8, 2015. Fifteen people came to the Cupertino Library Story Room...
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Poetry Comes to Storytime!
On Monday (January 29th), I had the privilege of reading both a story book and poetry to the Storytime gang at the Cupertino Library. In honor of the holiday approaching this Friday, our theme was...
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Creativity Workshop: Igniting Your Writing!
I had so much fun on Tuesday at the Quinlan Center with a group of 3rd through 6th graders as we went through the first of the Igniting Your Writing workshops! In this first session, we focused on...
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