Aug 6 2012 FREE poetry workshops this August!

Beat the heat this August!  Attend a FREE T&W poetry workshop at your local NYC library!

With generous support from The Lily Auchincloss Foundation and The Lotos Foundation, T&W is partnering with the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Library to offer free poetry workshops based on our 2008 A POEM AS BIG AS NEW YORK CITY project.

Through this initiative, thousands of young people in NYC schools and community centers took part in workshops in which they wrote poems about their experiences growing up in New York, imagining the city as its own poem character. The poems created were adapted into a single narrative by T&W writer Melanie Maria GoodreauxA Poem as Big as New York City, which Universe (an imprint of Rizzoli) will publish as a hard-cover, illustrated children’s book in fall 2012. 

Our FREE one-hour poetry workshops will be held in select library branches on the following dates and times during August.  Come pay poetic tribute to our beloved city!

A POEM AS BIG AS NEW YORK CITY - Library Workshops
DATE SITE TIME BOROUGH
6-Aug City Island 2:00-3:00 Bronx
7-Aug Homecrest 2:30-3:30 Brooklyn
8-Aug Grand Concourse 2:00-3:00 Bronx
9-Aug Tottenville 3:00-4:00 Staten Island
11-Aug Children's Center @ 42nd Street 3:00-4:00 Manhattan
14-Aug Flatlands 2:00-3:00 Brooklyn
14-Aug Broadway 3:30-4:30 Queens
14-Aug Castle Hill 11:00-12:00 Bronx
15-Aug Francis Martin 3:00-4:00 Bronx
20-Aug Soundview 3:30-4:30 Bronx
24-Aug Coney Island  4:00-5:00 Brooklyn

In early 2013, T&W will prepare an anthology of poetry created during the branch-based workshops for publication in April 2013—National Poetry Month. We hope to provide copies of the anthology to all program participants, with several copies for each host library branch.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE FREE LIBRARY WORKSHOPS COMING THIS FALL!

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