California-Poets-in-the-Schools Program

Students, Teachers, and Poets on the CPITS Program

“I use poetry to get things off my mind. It clears my head.” — Louis Pasini, 5th grade Dunbar Elementary School, Glen Ellen
	“Poetry stretches your imagination and helps you explain things easier.” — Daniel Roy, 5th grade Mountain View Elementary, Concord
“Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.” — Philip Levine, On the Other Side of that Window: California Poets in the School 1993 Statewide Anthology
	“I wish I had been exposed to your program as a child. No question it would have made me a better writer, if not a poet.” — Albert Elsen, Stanford Professor of Art History (9-11-92 Letter to CPITS Poet-Teacher, Peter Y. Chou)

© Peter Y. Chou, Wisdom Portal, P.O. Box 390707, Mountain View, CA 94039
email address: peter(at)wisdomportal.com (12-12-96, updated 2-22-99)