Inaugural Santa Cruz County Youth Poet Laureate Dina Lusztig Noyes, center, is flanked Wednesday night by youth poet laureate finalists, from left, Gregory Souza, Simon Ellefson, Madeline Aliah and Sylvi Kayser during a celebration at Kuumbwa Jazz Center.
Now the county has created a new youth poet laureate title to do all of that at a youth level. Having already named its five finalists for the position, Santa Cruz Public Libraries and Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate Farnaz Fatemi will be hosting a celebration at Kuumbwa Jazz on April 10 to officially name the new youth poet laureate.
TEDxSantaCruz's conference returns to Cabrillo College April 13. This is the first TEDxSantaCruz event since December 2019, right before the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt on in-person events.