" Doreen] has become an expert at controlling the speeds of her poems, and this automotive aspect of poetic expression is not something to be scoffed at-- not simply because most people's minds spend an hour or two a day in motion in cars, but because that motion and the inner workings of mind and heart have played important parts in shaping or reshaping our poetry." -Jack Hirschman From the introduction

This is the second annual volume of an anthology and cultural festival in San Francisco. How can a small volume of poetry overthrow a world order? Poetry can bring us together and heal many deep wounds. The 61 poets in this volume are doctors and visionaries. This troubled time is in desperate need of vision. In the regime we live under today, wealth is power. Transnational financial institutions run our world to extract wealth and privatize it into the hands of a tiny elite. The elite then uses that wealth to make the world their personal playground and to perpetuate the system. It's called...

Over 200 people submitted their work to this city-wide poetry contest and reading series, which collects poetry from each of San Francisco's 11 districts. Sponsored by Friends of the SFPL and the San Francisco Public Library, poets were selected by Friends' Poet-in-Residence Jack Hirschman. Poetry of all types was accepted-from haikus to free verse, narrative to rhyming-and poetry in native languages was highly encouraged. This year's Poets 11 received a tremendous amount of beautiful and thought-provoking poetry authored by talented writers.