If you missed the reading by the WritersCorps apprentices this week, you missed a very talented group of young writers. One day they will rule the world.

On Tuesday, WritersCorps student Angela Starks read at home plate in the opening ceremonies at the Giants-Mets game at At&T Park. Joining her on the field was WritersCorps Teaching Artist Beto Palomar, who teaches at International Studies Academy. Angela and Beto read a poem they wrote about baseball. Angela, we are so proud of you!

Thanks for everyone who made it out to the WritersCorps Literary Festival. Here are a few photos.

Mahru Elahi and one of her students from Sanchez Elementary.

Cindy Je and Milta Ortiz, WritersCorps Teaching Artists at Mission High School.

Students from Mission High School perform a scene that they wrote.

For more photos of the reading, check out our flickr set. Many thanks to our cheerful volunteers Mario and Susan. Susan wrote about the event on her blog.

“If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.” — Rita Dove

The San Francisco Arts Commission (which is home to WritersCorps) is presenting a poetry reading tonight as part of the 40th anniversary celebration of the Neighborhood Arts Program. Looks like a stellar lineup. They’ve got some heavyweight writers like devorah major, Janice Mirikitani and Jack Hirshman as well as some more emerging writers like Leticia Hernandez (who, by the way, is on our advisory board.)

It starts at 7 tonight at Glide Memorial Church. (300 Ellis Street.) Also reading are: Roberto Vargas, Carolyn Caldwell, Al Robles, Alejandro Murgia, Anh-Hoa Nguyen and Nina Serrano. It’s free and there will be snacks from Mission Pie and Benkyodo.