This month on WordTemple, host Katherine Hastings talks with Chicano poet and educator Francisco X. Alarcón, the author of Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes; From the Other Side of Night; Of Dark Love, and many other collections of poems and poetry for young adults and children. Also, Susan Kelly-DeWitt reads new poems along with others from her collection The Fortunate Islands. Finally, in response to 70 of California’s State parks closing, several poets read from the new anthology What Redwoods Know - Poems From California State Parks. Sonoma County poets included in the book are David Beckman, Janine Canan, Ed Coletti, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Katherine Hastings, Jodi Hottel, Paula Koneazny, Gail Larrick, Hannah Maggiora and Phyllis Meshulam.