Anthony Pino

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Anthony Pino is a writer and teacher of composition, critical thinking and literature in the San Jose area, and an accomplished poet. He has graduated from programs at Santa Clara, George Washington, and California State East Bay universities.  He lives in Newark, California, with his wife, Judy, of 57 years, and an obstreperous Chihuahua named Kizzy Suzuki. The author has two adult children, Petra and Mark, and the smartest granddaughter ever, Sophia. His first book of poetry is A Hidden River. His upcoming book is Apricots, Dragonflies, Memory.

                        Youth Poet ~ Mae Spiegel

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Mae Spiegel is a third-year undergraduate student at UC Davis in the creative writing program. She tends to write in the attempt to harvest the strange and whimsical from the everyday.

Nina Serrano

Nina Serrano is an active 91-year-old prize-winning poet and media producer in Vallejo, California. She has published three volumes of poetry:  Heart Songs, Heart's Journey, and Heart Strong, and has now published  “Out of the Blue”. She also published a novel, “Nicaragua Way.” Her plays have been produced in the United States and Canada.

 

She produced regular monthly radio programs on literature and Latinx affairs on KPFA (94.1fm) and OZCAT radio ( 89.5fm) for many decades. She has directed the San Francisco Poetry in the Schools program and the Stagebridge Storytelling in the Schools program. She was also a member of the Oakland Arts Commission for 8 years. You can learn more on her website.

 

 

 

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Sehinne Yohannes

16-year-old Sehinne Yohannes is a Habesha poet, and a junior in the Social Justice Academy of San Leandro. She has used poetry as a catalyst of her activism, as well as a means of comfort when the planet feels like it wasn’t meant for her. Her poetry describes the reality of the world we live in, as well as the fantasies she hopes can one day come true. Poetry has helped her break out of her shell immensely since she began writing, and has given her the confidence to be her true authentic self. ​

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