past POET LAUREATE events

MARCH 2025 TEACH-IN
for ECHS students
: Lunchtime mentorship
Tess and 14 Hills magazine staff, lunch meeting with El Cerrito High School (ECHS) literary magazine staff

MARCH 15, 2025 | EL CERRITO COMMUNITY CENTER, GARDEN ROOM (7007 Moeser Lane)
PUBLIC
, 4:30—6:00PM
Intergenerational  Poetry Workshop with Tongo Eisen-Martin

MARCH 15, 2025 | EL CERRITO COMMUNITY CENTER, GARDEN ROOM (7007 Moeser Lane)
PUBLIC
, 6:30—8:00PM
Bay Area All-Star Reading with Maw Shein Win, Bob Hass, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and Brenda Hillman

february 8, 2025 | EL CERRITO COMMUNITY CENTER, GARDEN ROOM (7007 Moeser Lane)
PUBLIC, 4:30—6:00PM
Place and Placemaking in Poetry and Photography
a conversation with Ishmael Reed and Lewis Watts about writing and imagining El Cerrito/Richmond in art

DECEMBER 12, 2024
ECHS literary magazine & African American poetry club staff field trip to San Francisco literary offices at Believer Magazine and The Grotto

NOVEMBER 13, 2024 | HARDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
5:30pm—7:00PM
BAY AREA VOICES
a conversation about novels, the poems, and WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS with Shanthi SekAran and Vanessa Hua

OCTOBER 21, 2024 | hana gardens (10870 San Pablo Ave)
PUBLIC, 7:00—8:30PM
DROP-IN Community Poetry Circle w/ El Cerrito Poet Laureate Tess Taylor
Bring a poem of someone else’s you admire to read and one of your own if you’d like.

OCTOBER 16, 2024
for ECHS students
: Lunchtime mentorship
Tess and poet Blaise Zerega, of Alta Magazine, lunch meeting with ECHS literary magazine staff

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024 | EL CERRITO PUBLIC LIBRARY (6510 STOCKTON AVENUE)
PUBLIC, 10:30AM—12:00PM
75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION -- TESS TAYLOR DAY! El Cerrito Author Series

September 11, 2024
for ECHS students
: Lunchtime mentorship
Tess and poet Alan Charazo, of KQED, lunch meeting with El Cerrito High School (ECHS) literary magazine staff