Moderated by local author Linda Ruggeri.\n
About our poet laureates:
\nLee Herrick is the California Poe t Laureate and the first to be reappointed to a second term. He is the aut hor of four books\, most recently In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Se lected Poems (2024). He co-edited The World I Leave You: Asian Am erican Poets on Faith and Spirit and the AGNI Portfolio of Adoptee Wr iting. His writing appears in anthologies such as Here: Poems for the Planet\, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama\; Indivisible: Po ems of Social Justice\, with an introduction by Common\; and Dear America: Letters of Hope\, Habitat\, Defiance\, and Democracy\, amon g others. Born in Daejeon\, Korea and adopted to the United States at ten months\, he lives with his wife and daughter in Fresno\, California. Websi te: https://www.leeherrick.com/< /p>\n
Aisha Rivera is an actor\, visual artist\, playwright and poet fro m Napa\, CA. Favorite acting credits include "Yerma" (Shotgun Players)\, " Dead Man's Cellphone" (Upstage Napa Valley)\, and "Cymbeline" (Berkeley Sh akespeare Company). Aisha is also the current Poet Laureate for Napa Count y. Their poetry can be found in the poetry anthologies Poetics without Borders and Latinas: Gender\, Race\, and Class. Aisha belie ves in the power poetry holds to build community\, create social change\, and express the wonderful rollercoaster that is the human experience. Lear n more about the Napa County Poet Laureate: https://www.napacounty.gov/3 264/Napa-County-Poet-Laureate-Program
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