Sidewalk Poets

06/19/2026

Happy Juneteenth! 🐦‍🔥 Keep fighting for a better world

06/16/2026

Pardon the late post! In May, we celebrated Asian-American Heritage Month! Some of the greatest pieces of American media have come from Asian-American minds, hands, and visions; the films we have selected here speak to that sentiment. In the last decade or so, there has been a rise in Asian representation in American media, and much of that has to do with the box office success of Crazy Rich Asians. The directors of Parasite and Everything Everywhere All at Once pointed to Crazy Rich Asians as paving a way for Hollywood studios to see that Asian stories can not only be compelling, but commercially successful as well. Hopefully, we will see even more films like Past Lives and Minari come out of Hollywood as studios invest in Asian creatives and stories.

06/16/2026

It’s comingggg… Save the date for the Sidewalk Poets Writing in Nature Retreat in Estes Park, September 11th - 13th 2026! More details to come!

06/15/2026

Sidewalk Poets celebrates Pride Month this year with a great selection of q***r films to watch, share, and enjoy! Some of the most interesting and inspiring creatives in media and at our workshops are a part of the LGBTQ+ community, and this month we hope to celebrate them. Our selection of films span from gay love in England in the early 20th century, to a Korean lesbian-thriller, and to a modern American story of a government agent whose job is to arrest gay men realizing he is gay himself...

Q***r stories are desperately needed in our current polarized state as they serve to humanize people's stories and lives that are too often stereotyped and abstracted.

05/13/2026

a mother in recovery.
Read what she wrote in her first workshop and her last.

First Session: Carrying Poem by Kayla

I carry with me pain and misunderstanding.
I drop that off and pick up the delusion of real happiness.
Lost in a void I’ve made my home,
lost in the void so long I don't even realize
there's another place in my journey to go.
Sometimes I even think I’ve made a void within the void.
Carried too long the pain of my past but also been gone in the safety of a lie
so long I don't know who to get back to what’s true and what’s not.

Last Session: Now by Kayla

I have carried myself through the fire
and now have emerged as beautiful as a phoenix.
My wings will carry me into the next chapter:
fully cloaked in an unbeatable armor, sturdy.
I carry the water of life on my head
ready to dip in at any time and replenish my soul.

For this will be a forever journey of growth
and I will be sure to never let myself go.

05/08/2026

Sidewalk Poets is excited to announce the publication of "Bang, the King is Dead" by Najah Jabbar, Sidewalk Poets community member and partner. The link to purchase is below!

https://www.amazon.com/Bang-King-Dead-Jabbar/dp/195281328X?ref_=ast_author_dp

05/05/2026

¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

"Cinco de Mayo is about the barefoot, the untooled,
the warriors of want who took on the greatest army
Europe ever mustered—and won."
-Luis J Rodríguez

Lee el poema completo aquí:

And I knew then what it meant— what it meant for barefoot Zapoteca indigenas in the Battle of Puebla and what it meant for me there on 18th Street among…

04/22/2026

Happy Arab American Heritage Month! This month we're taking the time to celebrate Arab Americans and recognize their achievements. Swipe through to read about groundbreaking and inspiring Arab American authors!

04/19/2026

Presenting the Globeville StoryWalk!!! 🎉
The signs are now installed all around Globeville in Argo Park, Platte Open Space, the planter boxes along 46th Street and at Prodigy Coffeehouse! The signs feature incredible poems, stories and words written by community members in the neighborhood. We’re so honored and proud to share their voices with Denver! The gorgeous art is by artist Levi Garcia .78

We'll be posting the map for the full story-art installation soon, and keep an eye out for more info on a reading/walk event coming up!

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04/17/2026

We've completed an 8-week long creative writing workshop for 5th grade students at Ashley Elementary, a Title 1 school in the East Colfax neighborhood of Denver. Swipe through to see photos, read the students' poetry, and hear about how this workshop boosted self-confidence, provided a sense of community, and taught them skills they can use for dealing with big emotions.