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Meet Marie Butcher, Monterey County’s new poet laureate. In addition to the International Poetry Gathering event on Jan. 25, Butcher will also…
Monterey County’s poet laureate Rachelle Escamilla.
Poet Rachelle Escamilla is a person who makes things happen. In 2018, she was a visiting scholar at the Library of Congress, among countless p…
Rachelle Escamilla became Poet Laureate of Monterey County in January 2024, but she has been a poet much of her life. The list of programs she…
The Arts Council for Monterey County announced a call for nominations for the next Monterey County Poet Laureate. This is a two-year position …
Perhaps you heard of her, because the Weekly has certainly written about her before. Mahi Shah, from Notre Dame High School in Salinas, won th…
The Arts Council for Monterey County—in partnership with Urban Word, a New York City-headquartered youth program that fosters creative writing…
Born in 1955 in San Francisco to an American mother and a Mexican father, Bob Gómez has been a Watsonville resident since 1984. While his fath…
There is a nation-wide effort to get more poetry, diverse and anti-racist books into the hands of young people around the United States.
Following National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman's performance of "The Hill We Climb" on Inauguration day, there was a renewed sense of th…