From the beginnings of Coastside Poetry over four years ago, we have been committed to providing a space where poets of every color, culture, sexual orientation and gender can feel they have a voice and a warmly welcoming audience. Today we recommit to inviting a wide range of featured poets to come read for us and offer their books for sale.

We also maintain an open invitation to our poetry community to give us feedback, to suggest poets they would like to hear read for us. We repeat that invitation now, in a louder voice this time. We eagerly encourage our community to direct our attention to poets that need to be heard.

COPO Statement on Social Justice and BLM

Link to Puente, supporting families and communities dealing with the CZU August Lightning Complex Fire

Diane Lee Moomey ( dianeleemoomey@coastsidepoetry.org )

Steve Long ( stevelong@coastsidepoetry.org )