Michael Klam has organized and hosted the Poetry & Art Series at the San Diego Art Institute since 2001. His freelance work has appeared in San Diego CityBeat, The San Diego Daily Transcript, Voice of San Diego, and La Prensa San Diego. As a teacher, Klam cocreated the Page to Canvas to Stage program, bringing poets, painters, and K-12 students together to create visual art and perform poetry. To find out more about the Poetry & Art series, please visit www.sandiego-art.org.