The Petaluma Poetry Walk
11am-8pm, Sunday, September 21, 2025, from 11am-8pm
petalumapoetrywalk.org

The 28th annual Petaluma Poetry Walk is a FREE, day-long celebration of live readings that brings together poetry and community. The event features 26 poets sharing their work across eight local venues. Come for one reading or stay for them all!

Plus our new annual anthology magazine will make its debut! Cover art by Ellen Kombiyil, co-winner with Julie Marie Wade of the Raleigh Review‘s 2025 Geri Digiorno Prize.

Readings At The Petaluma Historical Library & Museum
The Youth Poets
Sunday, September 21, 2025
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Petaluma Historical Library & Museum
20 4th Street (Corner of 4th and B Street)
Free

Meg Hamill

Meg Hamill, Executive Director of California Poets in the Schools, is the author of two poetry collections including My Roots, My People and editor of numerous youth anthologies. A passionate advocate for arts education, she believes in its power to inspire curiosity, creativity, and lifelong engagement in young people.

Lisa Zheng

For Lisa Zheng, a junior at Maria Carrillo High School, poetry is an empty Google Doc or a fresh leaf of paper where she can escape the rules of school essays to pour out her rawest experiences. A “word nerd”, Zheng’s purpose for poetry, besides personal catharsis, is giving voice to the psychological turmoils many teens experience that are often hidden due to shame, in order to give them hope and cause for change.

Anaya Ertz

Anaya Ertz, Marin Youth Poet Laureate 2025-2026, and a senior at Marin Academy, began writing poetry in 6th grade. For her, it became a way to process emotion and inspire change. Editor-in-chief of Echoes and a KQED student journalist, she sees writing as community engagement. Her inspirations include people, place, and passions like world history, Formula 1, and neuroscience.