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Media/Events contact:
Adrienne Biggs
415-453-4474, adrienne@biggspublicity.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Giants' opening day media passes, youth interviews, digital images/PSA/DVD available
These bright young poets make San Francisco a city of possibility, where the imagination
truly leads us to a more solid future.
— Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco
The poets of Solid Ground... transform bewilderment into rumination, chaos into resolve.
— ZZ Packer
...Each poem articulates its own universe; using words as light to help us scramble across
the frightful chasms that exist between all of us.
— Jewelle Gomez
youth poets shake things up with the San Francisco Giants
and launch new poetry book SOLID GROUND with quake theme
March 10, 2006 (San Francisco)—On the opening night of the San Francisco Giants' spring season—April 7, 2006—two WritersCorps youth will read their poems from home plate, in front of one of the largest poetry audiences in United States history. The unprecedented reading at AT&T Park will appropriately launch Solid Ground, a poetry anthology by WritersCorps, edited by Judith Tannenbaum, with a foreword by ZZ Packer (April 1 2006, Aunt Lute Books, $12.95, paperback, ISBN 1-879960-71-0, www.writerscorps.org).
This unique event—as well as those being held for the book at City Lights Bookstore, the Exploratorium, and Cody's among other locations (see attached)—is timed with National Poetry Month, as well as the anniversary of San Francisco's Great Earthquake of 1906 upon which Solid Ground is loosely based. WritersCorps has gathered the powerful voices of San Francisco youth as they reflect on solidity, violence, upheaval, and regeneration in their lives, their communities and the world. The poems are a moving story, eloquent, fragile, courageous, and shattering. Each page is a reminder that an earthquake is still occurring for many youth, as they powerfully capture what it means to live on a faultline.
WritersCorps, a project of the San Francisco Arts Commission, places professional writers in community settings to teach creative writing to youth. Since its inception in 1994, the program has helped over 12,000 young people from neighborhoods throughout San Francisco improve their literacy and increase their desire to learn. WritersCorps publishes award-winning publications and produces local and national events featuring young people. The program is part of a national alliance with sites in the Bronx, NY and Washington, D.C., whose shared vision is to transform and strengthen individuals and communities using the written word.
www.writerscorps.org
Media passes will be required to interview the youth poets at the Giants' Opening Day Game, Friday, April 7, 2006.
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