Remembering Janice Mirikitani, GLIDE Co-Founder and Former San Francisco Poet Laureate

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🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Janice Mirikitani, a beloved local icon who was San Francisco's second poet laureate and a co-founder of GLIDE, died last week at the age of 80. Known equally for her poetry and her fierce advocacy on behalf of San Francisco's most vulnerable residents, Mirikitani played a pivotal role in shaping the community and work of Glide Memorial Church, alongside her husband Cecil Williams. As a poet, she poignantly blended her art and activism, publishing four books including "Shedding Silence" and "We, The Dangerous." Mirikitani believed in "caring dangerously" saying in a talk at Glide Memorial Church in 2014 that "caring dangerously means that you dare to take the risk to open yourself up to somebody else." We'll reflect on the life and legacy of Janice Mirikitani. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5	Janice Miriketani, a beloved local icon who was San Francisco's second poet laureate and a co-founder of Glide, died last week at the age of 80.
0:44.7	Known equally for her poetry and her fierce advocacy on behalf of San Francisco's most vulnerable residents, we want to honor her legacy today.
0:52.7	So to begin, here she is in her first appearance as the city's
0:56.0	poet laureate in March 2000, performing some of her work, sharing why she loved San Francisco so much.
1:02.3	When I run in the neighborhoods of San Francisco, I'm always reminded of why I love this city.
1:09.9	It's diversity.
1:11.6	The poetry of each unique community, the echoes of past and emerging songs.
1:17.6	City lights in North Beach,
1:19.6	Frillingetty's temple of poetry and famous beats.
1:23.6	I still hear Ginsburg's guru om.
1:29.9	In an anti-nuclear drone,
1:33.7	Chinatown, rhythms from Kearney Street Writers' Workshop,
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