Malibu’s Poet Laureate Ricardo Means Ybarra conducted a four-week poetry workshop in May and June with the fifth-grade students at Juan Cabrillo Elementary School. Throughout the course, the students had the chance to create original works of poetry each week. Ybarra shared with them the writings of William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and even Ybarra himself.
Each student was gifted a copy of his book, “Scratch and the Pirates of Paradise Cove.”