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Bob Booker is a North Beach poet who has served on the Poet Laureate Committee since the inception of the program.
Robin Ekiss is a poet whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly, POETRY, APR, VQR, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The New England Review, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Blackbird, and elsewhere.
From 2002 to 2004, she was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford. Robin has organized all of the poetry related programs for Litquake.
Mike Farrah is Director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services. He is a fifth generation native San Franciscan who has worked in
City government for over 20 years. For his long-time commitment to the arts, he was honored with a Director’s Award by the Black Rock Arts Foundation in March 2008.
Jewelle Gomez has served on the Poet Laureate Committee since the inception of the program. She is a writer and poet and currently serves as Director of Grants & Community Initiatives at the Horizons Foundation.
She is chair of the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center Endowment Committee and is President of the San Francisco Public Library Commission.
Forrest Hamer is a poet, psychologist, candidate psychoanalyst, and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Call & Response (Alice James, 1995), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award,
and Middle Ear (The Roundhouse Press, 2000), a finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award. His work has appeared in many journals including the Beloit Poetry Journal, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, ZYZZYVA, Berkeley Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Drumming Between Us, Equinox, Kenyon Review, Negative Capability.
Hamer's work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Poet’s Choice: Poems for Everyday Life, The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place, and Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry.
Luis Herrera is the City Librarian of San Francisco and serves as Chair of the Poet Laureate Committee.
Jack Hirschman is an American poet and social activist who has written more than 50 volumes of poetry and essays. He was appointed Poet Laureate of San Francisco by Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2006. He released his most extensive collection of poems yet, The Arcanes that year.
Published in Salerno, Italy by Multimedia Edizioni, The Arcanes comprises 126 long poems spanning 34 years.
Joyce Jenkins is a noted Bay Area poet and the founder and editor of Poetry Flash, a Berkeley-based poetry review and literary calendar.
Poetry Flash, a non-profit literary arts organization, is the producer/sponsor of the Northern California Book Reviewers and the Northern California Book Awards. Joyce has served one previous term on the Poet Laureate Committee.
James Kass is a poet and writer and the Founder and Executive Director of Youth Speaks. Since 1996, Youth Speaks has set a national standard for creative writing, poetry, and spoken word programs for youth. James also has served on the Poet Laureate Committee
since the inception of the program.
Janice Mirikitani is San Francisco’s second Poet Laureate, appointed to the position by Mayor Willie Brown in 2000. She is Executive Director of Programs at Glide Church,
providing comprehensive services to the poor, ill and homeless in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, as well as an award winning poet, editor, choreographer and activist.
Marcia Schneider is the Chief of Communications, Collections and Adult Services of the San Francisco Public Library. She has served on the past three Poet Laureate Committees.
Byron Spooner is Director of Book Operations for Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. He was a key organizer of the 2007 International Poetry Festival.
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