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An Evening with our Poet Laureates

Gather for a night of verse from California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and Napa County Poet Laureate Aisha Rivera as they share their work and give tips on writing poetry of your own.

Moderated by local author Linda Ruggeri.

About our poet laureates:

Lee Herrick is the California Poet Laureate and the first to be reappointed to a second term. He is the author of four books, most recently In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems (2024). He co-edited The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit and the AGNI Portfolio of Adoptee Writing. His writing appears in anthologies such as Here: Poems for the Planet, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama; Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice, with an introduction by Common; and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, among others. Born in Daejeon, Korea and adopted to the United States at ten months, he lives with his wife and daughter in Fresno, California. Website: https://www.leeherrick.com/

Aisha Rivera is an actor, visual artist, playwright and poet from Napa, CA. Favorite acting credits include "Yerma" (Shotgun Players), "Dead Man's Cellphone" (Upstage Napa Valley), and "Cymbeline" (Berkeley Shakespeare Company). Aisha is also the current Poet Laureate for Napa County. Their poetry can be found in the poetry anthologies Poetics without Borders and Latinas: Gender, Race, and Class. Aisha believes in the power poetry holds to build community, create social change, and express the wonderful rollercoaster that is the human experience. Learn more about the Napa County Poet Laureate: https://www.napacounty.gov/3264/Napa-County-Poet-Laureate-Program

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