Poetry in the Parks: Share Your Voice
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Parks Conservancy
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the restoration of Crissy Field, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy will host Poetry in the Parks: Share Your Voice, a series of free public poetry writing workshops at locations throughout Crissy Field from August 28–30, 2026. Registration is required, see details below. Workshops are free and limited to 25 participants per session. Participants are encouraged to bring a notebook, pen, comfortable layers, and a willingness to explore the park through words.
About Poetry in the Parks
Led by acclaimed poet Jodie Hollander, the workshops invite participants to slow down, observe the landscape, and create original poems inspired by their personal connection to Crissy Field and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. No poetry experience is necessary.
Since its restoration, Crissy Field has become one of San Francisco’s most beloved gathering places—a shoreline where wildlife habitat, sweeping Bay views, community memory, and everyday moments of wonder come together. Poetry in the Parks builds on that spirit by offering people a creative way to experience the park: not only as a place to visit, but as a place to listen, reflect, and belong.
“Crissy Field has always been a place where people come together—to walk, play, learn, restore habitat, and take in the beauty of the Bay,” said Kate Bickert, Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships and Innovation at the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. “These workshops are an invitation to meet the park and one another in a new way, through language, imagination, and shared experience.”
Hollander’s work has appeared in a variety of literary journals, and she published her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, in 2017. Her second collection, Nocturne, was published in 2023 and was longlisted for the Laurel Prize in nature writing. She is the originator of Poetry in the Parks, a program offered in partnership with several national park units.
