Santa Cruz Youth Poet Laureates @ Kuumbwa Jazz Center

Santa Cruz County Youth Poetry Celebration @ Kuumbwa

April 16, 2026

Santa Cruz County Parks & the Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County

Poetry Scavenger Hunt in the Parks

April 16 - Multiple Dates

Bookshop Santa Cruz, & UCSC, The Humanities Institute (THI) @ The Rio Theater

The Future is Peace | Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon | Moderated by Douglas Abrams

April 20, 2026

Santa Cruz Poetry Project @ Satori

Inside Out Loud with Santa Cruz Poetry Project

April 20, 2026

Hive Poetry Collective

In Celebration of the Muse

April 21, 2026

Bookshop Santa Cruz

Author Event: Jane Smiley | LIDIE: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

April 22, 2026

Watsonville Center for the Arts

Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate, Nancy Miller Gomez, and the Rising Voices Youth Poetry Collective

April 24

Bookshop Santa Cruz

Independent Bookstore Day at Bookshop Santa Cruz

April 25, 2026