Join us for a celebration of new student writing after school on Tuesday, May 21. More info here.

This May, the San Francisco Main Public Library is filled from top to bottom with poetry by WritersCorps students! Step to Poetry — a colorful literary art installation of poems about popular culture — will be on display from May 10 until June 10 on the main staircase of the Main Library. View the installation on your next visit to the library and collect free postcards featuring the poems.

Poetry Contest: Submit your own short poem to our poetry contest 1) Follow @writerscorps & @sfpubliclibrary on Instagram or Twitter (or both!) 2) Submit your short poem using the hashtag #steptopoetry. We encourage entries about libraries, books, San Francisco, or poetry itself. 3) Your entries should be original, not previously published, and should not have previously won any awards. 4) Winning entries ⎯ chosen once a week ⎯ will be featured on social media and win books and journals. 5) Contest ends June 7.