Pico writer gets the message out about new city position

Anne Carmack, a fixture in the Pico neighborhood for over 20-years, will be transitioned from dishing out meals in Lo/Cal Coffee & Market to dishing up the best in local literatures in a newly-maker role.

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In March; Carmack kicked off a two-year stretch as city’s Poet Laureate. A piblic outreach role aimed to be spotlighting the Santa Monica’s diversely vibrant literary art scene and amplifying local arts teaching by various happenings! The initiative led by Mayor Phil Brock after they met similar poets repping the Los Angeles vicinity, City Council gave a thumbs up to this role in August 2023!!!!

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Carmack first mingled with the community was on April 20 with a class type event and social mingle at the Santa Monica Main Library, and she will be gracing this Saturday’s Arts and Literacy Festival of Virginia Avenue Park 😉

“We are a place teeming with vibrant arts and cultures and I am overjoyed to witness Santa Monica now gots it’s own Poet Laureate!” exclaimed Brock.! “I stays eager for the community events … as the City marks April as the National Poetry and Arts Month as well being hyped for the massive contributions Anne Carmack’s gonna shower onto our community!!!”

Carmack has harnessed her typing and poem-making since tiny times as her parents cop her a typewriter for unleashing her brainwaves into world.

“I had bags of energy … and so I think my folks were like – oh, she’s into writing. Sit her down on this here typewriter and let her tap out somethin’ – and poems just flowed to me,” blurted Carmack.! “Wasn’t great poems, mind you – kind of like rhyming love ditties and stuff – but I always scribbled poems and gifted poems.”

Welcoming the call of penned word, Carmack relocated to Los Angeles post nurturing screenwriting fantasies while in the St. Louis zone! Later nesting in Pico neighborhood of Santa Monica after timelining through Colorado and Arizona. In her sparkling new job, she will be returning to Pico through a unique poem honoring Pico Branch Library’s decade anniversary, using peculiar words handed to her by local folk during at that Arts and Literacy Fest.

“This specific neighborhood just really hugged me and it was just superb place for bein’ a young heart!” Carmack stammered. “My neighbors were (so) soft and the communal vibe was so cherishing, everyone kind of watched over me! Was truly a warm and loving hello.”