News and Events

Due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy, the November 8th T&W Reading TELLING IT SLANT AND STRAIGHT with Susan Buttenwieser, Vanessa Mártir, and Ibi Zoboi  has been postponed. Please check back for its reschedule date. 

Teachers & Writers Collaborative cordially invites you to

TELLING IT SLANT AND STRAIGHT: 

Susan Buttenwieser, Vanessa Mártir, and Ibi Zoboi

Join T&W writers Susan Buttenwieser, Vanessa Mártir, andIbi Zoboi for an evening of Telling it Slant and Straight. They'll share differing perspectives and genres on love and loss, the beautiful and the heinous. Susan Buttenwieser will kick off the evening with a short story; then Vanessa Mártir will jostle you with excerpts from her memoir, A Dim Capacity for Wings; and Ibi Zoboi will make your imagination soar with a piece from her YA fantasy novel.

Come out for an evening of beams and bends as these talented T&W artists tell it to us Slant and Straight!

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Doors open at 6:30

Reading at 7:00

at Teachers & Writers Collaborative

520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2020

(between West 36th and West 37th Streets)

Queries: 212-691-6590 or events@twc.org 

Teachers & Writers Collaborative has received a $100,000 grant from the New York Community Trust (NYCT) to support creative writing programs in middle school social studies and science classes during 2012-2013. This renewed and increased NYCT funding will enable T&W to serve 13 middle schools at locations in all five boroughs.

For more information about T&W's creative writing programs for K-12 students, please write to workshops@twc.org or call 212-691-6590.

Join Teachers & Writers Collaborative and fifth-grade students from PS 111, the Adolph S. Ochs School, for a performance of A Poem as Big as New York City, Saturday, October 20, at 3:00 PM. The event will be held in the Berger Forum, Room 227, at the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, Fifth Avenue and West 42nd Street.

In addition to the performance, T&W teaching artists Matthew Burgess, Melanie Maria Goodreaux, and Jane LeCroy will lead a collaborative poem-writing activity for children and families at the event.

To attend this special event, enter the library through the Fifth Avenue doors and take the marble staircase to the right up one flight to the second floor. The Berger Forum is the second door on the right, almost at the end of the hall.

For more information, contact T&W at 212-691-6590 or events@twc.org.

A Poem as Big as New York City is featured in an article on New York Metro Parents.

"The book includes 74 color illustrations...that reflect the playfulness and whimsy of the children’s poetry. Together, images and words dance, jump, and stroll down crowded sidewalks, taking readers from the South Street Seaport to The Apollo Theater and everywhere in between."

Read the whole review here!

Barbara Flug Colin has been selected to receive the 2012 Bechtel Prize for her essay "Now Let's Stare at the Purple." Read more about the prize-winning work here.

A POEM AS BIG AS NEW YORK CITY is a delightful book-length poem that spreads the wonder and joy that is New York, as told through the words of its young people. Lyrical, heartfelt, and bursting with imagination, A POEM AS BIG AS NEW YORK CITY proves that a poem can be as vast and exciting as the greatest city in the world.

Check out an early review of the book.

Purchase A POEM AS BIG AS NEW YORK CITY directly from Rizzoli, New York. Also available from Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.

Find out more about A Poem as Big as New York City here.

T&W is looking for interns for the 2012-2013 school year. Take a look at the intern job description here, help spread the word, or apply yourself.

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 Goodreaux, A 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!

T&W is pleased to offer FREE poetry workshops for children and teens this summer!

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 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 Goodreaux, A Poem as Big as New York City, which Universe Publishing (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.  Come pay poetic tribute to our beloved city!

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 IN THE FALL!