“Submit your poem’s desired elements and characteristics to the Lit Factory, and see what interesting poem comes out,” said an invite to Legacy of Poetry Day April 18 on Caret Plaza, outside the campus entrance for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library. While published poets, students, faculty and alumni offered readings, student members of the Poets and Writers Coalition tapped away on old-fashioned typewriters, improvising pocket-sized poems upon request. Professors Alan Soldofsky and Annette Nellen organized the event, sponsored by the Poets and Writers Coalition, with co-sponsorship support from the Campus Reading Program, King Library, the Middle Eastern Studies Program, the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Associated Students, and Poetry Center San Jose.