Calling all POETS in grades 8 through 12!
YOUTH POETRY at Kendall Yards Night Market!
Curated by Spokane’s Poet Laureate, Mery Smith!
Come down to Night Market and make your voice heard. We need to hear from you irl.
Mery is continuing to invite youth poets from the community to come and read their work at the KYNM! Greenstone and Spokane Arts have sponsored the event to include a $15 stipend to spend at the night market.
This initiative created by Spokane Poet Laureate Mery Noel Smith, works to include feeding youth in the summer and supporting the vendors at the market!
Mery also invites a standing poet from the community to come be the opener for the evenings event- this piece creates opportunities for the adult poet and youth poet to connect, there they can offer and encourage support and guidance, bridging age, cultreula and soicio gaps in the poetry community.
Mery is working with Spokane Arts and Spark Central as well as other community organizations to announce a program for the first ever YOUTH POET LAUREATE of Spokane. Would you like to help be a part of this? Please feel free to reach out via Merys email.
Every Wednesday 4-6 pm. Read your first drafts or your next villanelle. Let’s fill the gaps with language and color. Let’s make sure we know what it is you are hoping for, what you are afraid of, what is your joy, your five year plan, your friend’s name?
This is a chance to celebrate the season and share your poetry with the Night Market and neighborhood community!
Fill out this simple application and you could be a participant at Night Market this summer! applications close May 9, so get them in now, and tell all your friends!
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