Annual event highlights the importance of youth literacy with in-person poem-ing
Poets across Canada will visit juvenile detention centres, alternative schools and youth centres October 4th to 9th, 2010, during the seventh annual Random Acts of Poetry event, sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts. For the first time, the event is focused this year on bringing poetry to young people. Organizers want to draw attention to youth literacy, which they consider to be a crucial issue for Canada’s future.
Nanaimo poet Kim Goldberg’s latest book is RED ZONE, a poem diary of Nanaimo’s homeless population. Kim is a frequent performer at spoken word events on Vancouver Island.
We’re joined in the studio to be poemed by Kim Goldberg.
