SDEAG awarded grant by CECO

RAINBOW – The San Diego Entertainment & Arts Guild (SDEAG) received a grant from the San Diego County Employees' Charitable Organization (CECO) for poetry books to be used in workshops in Juvenile Hall and the Vista Jail. SDEAG president Bill Harding accepted the $720 grant at the CECO awards breakfast last month.

SDEAG, a 501(c)(3) public charity, sponsors the San Diego Poetry Annual, which includes specials sections from Poets in Juvenile Hall and Veterans in Jail. These two outreach programs involve workshops led by poets associated with the annual.

The CECO funds will be used to buy copies of two of the most influential guides to writing poetry – Steve Kowit's “In the Palm of Your Hand” and Maria Mazziotti Gillan's “Writing Poetry to Save Your Life” – plus copies of the 2015-16 San Diego Poetry Annual, featuring 329 poems by 242 poets.

Both Kowit and Gillan have been featured poets in previous annuals.

“We are so grateful to CECO for their generous help in reaching these underserved communities,” Harding told those in attendance at county headquarters on March 22. “We believe in the power of art to change people by getting inside them and opening them to new possibilities. With these two groups, poetry can also be a path to hope – and after that, everything is possible.”

For more information about the San Diego Poetry Annual or SDEAG, visit www.sandiegopoetryannual.com or www.sdeag.org.