With support from the California Arts Council, the Humboldt Arts Council will send experienced poet-teachers into local K-12 schools to teach poetry reading, writing, performance, and publication. Our program will bring poetry—a source of coping, creativity, empowerment, and healing through crises—to over 1,000 students and the larger community. Schools will include those with a high percentage of Native American students near the Hoopa and Yurok Reservations, adjacent to Karuk land tracts; and a significant percentage of students representing a cross-section of cultures: Latinx, Asian (particularly Hmong), Black, and those with disabilities.