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<\/a>San Francisco Peace and Hope\u00c2\u00a0 www.sfpeaceandhope.com<\/a> is an online literary journal that promotes peace through poetry, writing and visual art.\u00c2\u00a0 Al Young, California poet laureate emeritus, serves as the adviser, and has written the magazine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foreword.<\/p>\nSan Francisco Peace and Hope\u00c2\u00a0 sfpeaceandhope.com is an online literary journal that promotes peace through poetry, writing and visual art.\u00c2\u00a0 Al Young, California poet laureate emeritus, serves as the advisor, and has written the magazine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foreword.<\/p>\n
Who We Are
\nSeptember 11 2001 hearts and lives were broken, our emotional reference system to what makes our world make sense…fractured at best. On September 12, 2001, SF Peace and Hope was born.<\/p>\n
For me, this experience is like being in the desert without\u00c2\u00a0visual anchors; a stark, solitary confinement of too much illogical space and suddenly out of a mysterious pocket of earth is a peacock. He fluffs his feathers up high and wide. He shows us our humanity and our beauty in the midst of dust and death.<\/p>\n
The eyes of the peacock’s feathers are said to be the symbol of eternal life; renewal, the eyes of the stars seeing us in our\u00e2\u20ac\u201din the words of Al Young\u00e2\u20ac\u201d”deathless truths”. The poems in SF Peace and Hope are those stars beaded into the large plume of humanity\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthey say simply, ‘we are bigger than politics and even death, we have the strength of a renewing spirit’. – Niya C. Sisk<\/p>\n
More info at http:\/\/fourws.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/san-francisco-peace-and-hope-2014-fest.html<\/a><\/p>\n list of participants: Poets reading: Artists presenting: Sunday, February 16, 2014, 1-4pm at AWE Gallery Annex The San Francisco Peace and Hope 2014 Fest is a celebration of the arts, honoring the SF Bay area literary spirit. Kit Kennedy will be the emcee and program includes readings … Continue reading
\nKit Kennedy: Emcee
\nPatrice Haan – harp music during reception<\/p>\n
\nSusan Gangel.
\nErica Goss, poet laureate of Los Gatos
\nJane Green
\nJos\u00c3\u00a9 Luis Guti\u00c3\u00a9rrez
\nPatrice Haan
\nSherri Rose-Walker
\nVince Storti
\nNancy Wakeman<\/p>\n
\nSusan Black
\nElaine Drew
\nJudy Seidel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"