Nils Peterson, Silicon Valley Poet Laureate

March 24th, 2009

Updating a previous news item, Arts Council Silicon Valley has named Nils Peterson as the first Silicon Valley Poet Laureate. Peterson is a professor emeritus from San Jose State University and co-founder of the Poetry Center of San Jose. The post comes with a $4,000 stipend plus funding for grass-roots poetry projects. The mandate is to “bring poetry to those who don’t know Rilke from Rihanna.”