Ismael Reed

Ismael Reed, Lewis Watts, Tess Taylor

8 FEBRUARY 2025 — saturday

The El Cerrito Poet Laureate program presents "Place and Placemaking in Poetry and Photography," a conversation about writing and imagining El Cerrito/Richmond in art, with poet, playwright, and novelist Ishmael Reed, who has written extensively about place and Richmond, El Cerrito, and Oakland, with Lewis Watts, professor, and photographer who photographs the Bay Area and Black diaspora, and El Cerrito Poet Laureate Tess Taylor, El Cerrito Community Center, Garden Room, 7007 Moeser Lane, El Cerrito, 4:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.el-cerrito.org/1561/Current-Poet-Laureate)