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Fee, fi, fo, fum! I’m looking for the giants of the tech industry in Santa Clara County and am offering this beanstalk: Whichever company can get both their CEO or other significant corporate leader and a minimum of 5 employees to respond to the Favorite Poem project first will be the site of the first Santa Clara County Favorite Poem Read-in to be held sometime this fall and featuring your employees and other local readers. Creative minds think alike, and that’s my point. What poem has made a difference to you somewhere along the line? I’ll leave the submission door open until the end of next week, June 3, to see whether some giant will rise to the challenge. Don’t let that other tech giant get there first.

Pass this on to anyone in the industry. You never know what might sprout from one little bean.

Sally Ashton
Santa Clara County Poet Laureate

Greetings from your Poet Laureate. I hope you’re enjoying these posts as much as I am. From silly to sobering, poetry proves to be a force in the lives of county residents, for the time being, its community leaders. I feel privileged to be in the midst, bringing the poems and comments to you. YES, I’m still collecting general submissions from any Santa Clara County resident and hoping to hear from more. YES, later in the summer after I’ve had a chance to sort and process I will begin posting submissions.

I’ve listed contributors to date in the left sidebar. Another cool option is to click one of the months in Archives, bottom left. This compresses the posts and allows you to skim down the contributors while viewing their opening thoughts, a quick way to see what’s going on.

In the meantime, please do pass on the opportunity to neighbors, co-workers, facebook, twitter, librarians, your favorite coffee shop or mailing list so that we might even begin to scratch the surface of this large, beautiful, diverse county. 15 cities! Close to 2 million people! Good grief, where are the poems?

Waiting to hear~

Sally Ashton
Santa Clara County Poet Laureate

Thursday, April 21
11:45-3pm
Caret Plaza, King Library, San José State University

As Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, I’ll be the featured reader at 1:30-1:45pm. Faculty, students, staff and alumni poets will be reading throughout the day in celebration of National Poetry Month.

Sally Ashton