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San Francisco's Next Poet Laureate
The City of San Francisco has long honored its deep literary traditions by naming a city poet laureate since 1998. This summer, the City’s poet laureate selection committee has opened the process to solicit nominations for the city’s eighth poet laureate. The next poet laureate will succeed poet Kim Shuck, who has served since 2017. The poet will join an illustrious list of past San Francisco poets laureate who include Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Janice Mirikitani, devorah major, Jack Hirschman, Diane di Prima and Alejandro Murguía.
As the city’s first poet laureate, Lawrence Ferlinghetti said, “The center of literate culture in cities has always centered in the great libraries.” Poet Laureate nominees must be San Francisco residents, have a substantial body of published work, including at least one full-length book, plus professional digital recordings of performances or 20 or more published poems in established publications, print or online, over the past five years.
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Poem of the DaySan Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck is curating a Poem of the Day. Check our website and Facebook page daily for a new poetic offering from assorted local poets and view the archive.
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Stay Home, Stay Safe This Fourth of July
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Time to gather round with Ranger Mariajosé for a virtual campfire. Go back to the time when plants and animals could speak and hear about the adventures of Coyote and sing silly songs featuring your national parks.
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July 19, 2 p.m. This program will be hosted on Zoom. Link will be sent to registrants before the event.
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Visit Your Virtual Library Your gateway to everything your library offers! We now have a Virtual Library curated to every age group. Step through our virtual doors. All free, all the time. eBooks for kids learning to read, Kanopy Kids, film recs Summer reading, hot new YA titles on hoopla Research San Francisco buildings, watch a cinematic masterpiece
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Friends' Evolving Role as Advocates for San Francisco Public Library Since March, the Library has been adapting to new challenges by creating new opportunities for community engagement online. Friends has been working alongside the Library, ensuring that our role as advocates continues through shelter in place. From producing new virtual content, to keeping members up to date and amplifying our local librarians’ work, Friends is committed to its role as a library support organization. The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library started nearly 60 years ago to advocate for and support the Library. Along with supporting the Library Preservation Fund, Friends’ primary focus has been fundraising to ensure the Library has the resources to provide programming, equipment, technology, furnishing and fixtures for each of the 28 branches. Fundraising has not stopped, and Friends is there for the Library to make sure online programming is funded.
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Get to Know the Brown/Handler Writing Residents Our current Brown/Handler Writing Residents will be featured in an upcoming interview series, “Get to Know the Residents,” with Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler. Listen to local writers present their work and have enriching conversations. Go to FriendsSFPL.org/Residency to learn more.
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