Nils Peterson, Santa Clara County’s poet laureate, will gather ten area poets to read original works inspired by the art on view at SJMA. Presented in collaboration with Poetry Center San Jose and Arts Council Silicon Valley. 

Participating poets will be: Len Anderson of Santa Cruz; Sally Ashton of Los Gatos (the 2011 poet laureate of Santa Clara County); Niki Escobar of Milpitas; Parthenia Hicks of Los Gatos; Persis Karim of Berkeley; David Perez of Campbell, Doren Robbins of Santa Cruz; and Vuong Vu of San Jose.

Image: Ida Wyman, Wrought Iron with Snow (detail), 1947, printed 1980s; Gelatin silver print. Gift of Arthur J. Goodwin.