Kathleen Herrmann

Writing Kathleen Herrmann's poetry has been published in anthologies in Africa, Australia, and North America, and in the Benicia Herald newspaper. Vallejo Poetry Festival, Napa Valley Writers Club, Alameda Island Poets, Benicia First Tuesday Poets, a Martin Luther King Day event, a Black History Month event, Fiestas Primavera in Benicia, Art Walk, Alibi Bookshop, the Earth Daze Festival, a climate change themed art exhibit at Vallejo Art Lofts Gallery, on the Vallejo waterfront, and the Solano County Fair. Eyvonne and Herrmann hosted an event at the Empress Theater encouraging voting.

Like their predecessors, Herrmann and Eyvonne hosted the Poetry in Notion poetry circle at the John F. Kennedy Library in Vallejo. They held events for youth including a chalk art festival and literacy awareness night. Eyvonne and Herrmann coached students for the 2025 Poetry Out Loud performance competition. They organized an ekphrastic poetry reading at Mare Island Art Studios. In 2025 Herrmann performed with jazz accompaniment at the Mira Theater. She performed at the Poets to Padilla and Schiff: Let Gaza Live demonstration in San Francisco in support of Palestinian journalists and H.R. 3565, the Block the Bombs Act.

In 2025 the poets laureate of Vallejo celebrated the 10th anniversary of the poet laureate program. All five Vallejo poets laureate received recognition from the California State Legislature, Solano County Supervisors, Vallejo Mayor and City Council for their service upon the program's anniversary. A sampling of their work was also included in the anthology A Decade of Poetic Unity edited by D. L. Lang. Eyvonne and Herrmann served on the selection committee that chose Erik Manuel Soto as their successor.

Works Poems Herrmann, Kathleen, "A Perfect Day" Benicia Herald, April 22, 2020 Herrmann, Kathleen, "Day 47" Benicia Herald, May 17, 2020 Herrmann, Kathleen, "Say Her Name" Benicia Herald, July 24, 2020 Herrmann, Kathleen, "Icarus In The 21st Century" Benicia Herald, September 6, 2020 Herrmann, Kathleen, "Spellbound" Benicia Herald, September 25, 2020 Herrmann, Kathleen, "Freefall" Benicia Herald, October 28, 2020 Herrmann, Kathleen, "High Hopes" Benicia Herald, January 15, 2021 Herrmann, Kathleen, "Say it LOUD" Benicia Herald, April 28, 2021 Herrmann, Kathleen, "Unwanted" Benicia Herald, September 22, 2021 Herrmann, Kathleen, "High Hopes Revisited January 6, 2022" Benicia Herald, January 14, 2022 Herrmann, Kathleen, "The Day I Met Homer Smith at the Movies" Benicia Herald, February 16, 2022 Herrmann, Kathleen, "Believe" Benicia Herald, March 9, 2022 Herrmann, Kathleen, "Amelia’s Song" Benicia Herald, May 1, 2022 Herrmann, Kathleen, "A Woman's Work" Work & The Anthropocene, Ice Floe Press, September 2, 2022 I Can’t Breathe: A Poetic Anthology of Social Justice Kistrech Poetry Festival. 2021. Opus IV: Napa Valley Writers Club 2023 Gnarly Vine Press. 2023. Loss: Lifespan, Vol. 9 Pure Slush Books. 2024. Unsettled Benicia Literary Arts. 2024. All About Animals Poetic Edge Publishers. 2024. Freedom 2024 Moonstone Arts Center. 2024. Our State of the Union: Your Voice Matters Moonstone Arts Center. 2024. A Decade of Poetic Unity: Celebrating Vallejo's Poets Laureate 2025.