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Please click here to view a full Symposium schedule including workshop descriptions & presenter bios. 

Please note that this is a live event.  Due to staff capacity, we do not intend to stream or zoom any portion of the workshops.  Thanks for understanding.

Space for overnight guests is limited at this event.  If overnight tickets are sold out, please refer to "Other Lodging Options" below.

For 60 years, California Poets in the Schools (CalPoets) has brought poetry creation and performance to over a million students across the state, and provided a vital professional network for thousands of California poets.  

This symposium is open to the public and geared towards literary teaching artists (for all audiences), classroom educators, poets, MFA candidates, and more. Content will be engaging for those brand new to teaching the literary arts and to the "old hats" among us.…