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Lookout Santa Cruz Covers SCCYPL Community Impact

May 12, 2025

Santa Cruz County youth poet laureates create community through shared love of poetrySan Lorenzo Valley High School junior Finn Maxwell, 16, and Dina Lusztig Noyes, 18, a senior at Pacific Collegiate School, told Lookout about what they love most about Santa Cruz County's youth poet laureate program. They're the first two to win the distinction.

2025-2026 Youth Poet Laureate Reading and Celebration

April 17th, 2025

Press Banner Coverage of 2025-2026 Santa Cruz Youth Poet Laureate Announcement

May 1, 2025

San Lorenzo Valley High School junior named Youth Poet Laureate for 2025-26 - Press Banner | Scotts Valley, CAThe definition of a poem is, “A piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.” Remove the stuffiness of the wording above, and poetry boils down to being a song from […]

Santa Cruz Sentinel Report on Finn Maxwell, Newly Announced Youth Poet Laureate

April 22, 2025

San Lorenzo Valley High School junior Finn Maxwell is Santa Cruz County’s newest youth poet laureateAt just 16 years old, Finn Maxwell already has a major love of the written word. The San Lorenzo Valley High School junior has written short stories and poems, been published in national publicatio…

2025-2026 YPL Announcement Press Release

April 18, 2025

Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries Article on SCCYPL's First Year

March 25, 2025

Youth Poet Laureate 2024 2025 - Friends of the Santa Cruz Public LibrariesNews March 24, 2025 Teens Expand Community Through Poetry As the Santa Cruz County Youth Poet Laureate program wraps up its first year, participants in the program have much to be proud of. The cohort of five finalists seized the chance to lead and inspire, and local teenagers accepted the invitation to learn and write

2025 Youth Poet Laureate Celebration Press Release

April 3, 2025

Santa Cruz Sentinel Report on SCCYPL Application Opening

December 17, 2024

Santa Cruz Public Libraries open applications for next youth poet laureateIf you are a teen who sees things in a poetic way and has even transferred those poetic thoughts to pen and paper, or maybe even smartphones or laptops, you will have an opportunity come spring to …

25-26 Youth Poet Laureate Applications Press Release

December 16, 2024

Youth Poet Laureate Dina Noyes in Good Times

May 1, 2024

Generational Voice | Good TimesDina Lusztig Noyes started writing out of necessity in order to make sense of the thoughts running through her head. She was barely in her teens when the Covid-19 pandemic took hold...

Hive Poetry Collective Interview with the Youth Poet Laureate and Finalists

Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate Reading and Celebration, April 10, 2024

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