Emerging Poets Program

For its 5th edition, the Poetry Downtown Festival shines a spotlight on American Indian poetry—celebrating the rich traditions, vibrant voices, and visionary perspectives Indigenous poets bring to our stages!

Poetry Lab | Research | New Paradox | American Shorts | Emerging Poets Program

With support of former Santa Monica resident P. Segal, now Director at The San Francisco Art House Project, we started in 2021 an Emerging Poets Programma.

Within this program we bring an emerging poet and a well renowned poet together for a period of six months together in order to develop and introduce the work of this poet to a greater reading public.

In 2021 we selected Katrina Khan and we connected Katrina to Lulu Schwartz.

Katrina Khan at Union Station, Los Angeles