T&W teaching artists Melanie Maria Goodreaux, Matthew Burgess, and Jane LeCroy will join the students in presenting A Poem as Big as New York City, and will then lead a collaborative poem-writing activity for children and families at the event. 

Melanie Maria adapted thousands of poems written in T&W programs into a single narrative poem describing the journey of A Poem as Big as New York City. Universe (an imprint of Rizzoli New York) published A Poem as Big as New York City in September 2012. The book features a foreword by Walter Dean Myers, the national ambassador for young people's literature, and illustrations byMasha D'yans. 

See highlights from the Poem's appearance at the Brooklyn Book Festival http://www.twc.org/category/blog/. 

Learn more about A Poem as Big as New York City, including new lesson plans to help you incorporate ideas from the book in your classroom, http://www.twc.org/about-us/a-poem-as-big-as-nyc/. To make a tax-deductible contribution to support Teachers & Writers Collaborative's programs and publications, go to http://www.twc.org/support-tw/donate/.