Kenyon Review - 2/18/2008
Poetry Is All About Playing and Patience, by Kirsten Ogden  (as printed in the Kenyon Review). In the mail this weekend came my copy of the California Poets in the Schools Statewide Anthology for 2007: My Song is the Light. Edited by Mary Lee Gowland, the anthology showcases the work of California students in K-12 served by poet-teachers from CPITS over the past year. What I love the most about getting this anthology every year is that it gives me hope. How could I not feel hope read more...


LA Times - 12/27/98
Shelley Brings Free Verse to Young Jailhouse Byrons: Education Instructor Savern helps juvenile offenders express feelings in poetry. By HILLARY E. MacGREGOR (LA TIMES).  The young man is so large that he dwarfs the room as he lumbers to the front of the class at the youth jail. He is 17 years old and doing time for armed robbery, but for now he is a poet and he has something to say. He spreads his legs and places one hand in his armpit, almost confrontational. Then he read more...


SF Chronicle - 4/06/05
OPEN FORUM -- Kids need poetry in school, by Susan Terence (SF Chronicle).  Why do children and teens like writing poetry? It's an excellent and necessary means of self-expression. Poetry necessitates scratching below the surface, plumbing emotions students are often afraid to share with their peers. Students will often reveal long-hidden troubles read more...


CPITS Poets on KALX 90.7 FM
Rohit, the DJ who does the Sunday Morning Culture Show on UC Berkeley's KALX 90.7 FM radio station did a long in-depth interview on the CPITS program in the schools. California Poets in the Schools master poet teachers Maureen Hurley & Grace Wade Grafton with teacher Neil O'Neill read fabulous student read more....


Learn more about California Poets in the Schools and their events in the following publications:

The San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Examiner
The Marin Independent Journal
The Union of Grass Valley a nd Nevada City
Poetry Flash
Poets & Writers