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Malibu Poet Laureate Ann Buxie hosts the 2022 Poetry Summit as part of the Malibu Library Speaker Series. The in person event will feature poetry, music, dance, and art.

• Featured reader, Peter J. Harris
• Additional poetry readings by Malibu Poet Laureate Ann Buxie, Former Malibu Poet Laureate Ricardo Means Ybarra, Jolynn Regan, Robert Woodcock, and student poets
• Music by A Call 2Peace
• Dance by Ann Monahan and tappers
• Artwork by MES 5^th grade class and Malibu High School photography students

Featured Reader: Peter J. Harris, 2018 Los Angeles COLA Fellow in literary arts, Fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC, and award-winning poet, is the author of Bless the Ashes, poetry (Tia Chucha Press), winner of the 2015 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and The Black Man of Happiness: In Pursuit of My 'Unalienable Right,' a book of personal essays, winner of a 2015 American Book Award. In 2022, FlowerSong Press will publish Harris’ Safe Arms: 20 Love & Erotic Poems (w/an Ooh Baby Babymoan), Spanish translation by Francisco Letelier, and Beyond Baroque Books will publish Harris’s SongAgain. Harris is founding director of The Black Man of Happiness Project, a creative, intellectual, and artistic exploration of Black men and joy. Harris writes the blog WREAKING HAPPINESS: A Joyful Living Journal: www.inspirationcrib.com