Orange County Poetry Library

Library Director                                                                                            

• Mitski Yamato, PhD                                                                               

Library Manager                                                         

• Lisa Neruda, MLIS                                                                                          

Library Technicians 

• Rodrigo Betancur 

• Bijan Solomon 

Library Interns

• Adriana Vicario (UCI MFA Program)

• Thomas Sarr (SJSU MLIS Progam)

• Penelope Joyce (SAC Library Technology Program) 

• The Orange County Poetry Library is currently the recipient of grants from the California State Library and California Department of Education.
• We also gratefully accept donations of any amount. The OC Poetry Library is in the process of becoming 501(c)(3) certified.
• We operate on both a Planning-Programming-Budgeting System and a Lump Sum Budgeting System. The former helps to keep the library in accordance with grant stipulations, and the latter allows us the flexibility to allocate resources to services as needed.

• Richard Godden

• Lisa Alvarez

• Monica Youngna Youn

• Kurt Meyer 

• Stephen Felder

Our board members assist in collection development and library programming.

They are educators and poets who donate their time in service of the OC Poetry Library's mission.