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Past and future, A Poem as Big as the City writing workshops

Upcoming Workshops

Please check back for dates of workshops at sites including:

T&W IN THE COMMUNITY: VIJAY SESHADRI AND YOUTH POETS AT THE NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM
April 26 – 2:00 PM

  • T&W and the New York Transit Museum present Vijay Seshadri and youth poets in a reading celebrating the experience of life in New York City. The reading is part of T&W’s newest project, A Poem as Big as the City, which engages young people citywide in the literary arts by bringing professional writers to libraries, museums, schools, and other community sites. Seshadri’s collections of poems include James Laughlin Award winner The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press, 2004) and Wild Kingdom (1996). His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in several periodicals, including The American Scholar, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Times Book Review, and in many anthologies, including The Best American Poetry (1997 and 2003). He currently teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

T&W IN THE COMMUNITY: A POEM AS BIG AS THE CITY AT BARNES & NOBLE IN TRIBECA
May 9 – 11:00 AM

  • Youth poets from PS 111M on the Lower East Side will read poems written for A Poem as Big as the City, T&W’s community poetry project in which young people citywide are writing poems about what it means to live and grow up in New York. Audience members at the event will have the opportunity to participate in a writing activity led by a T&W writer. The activity will inspire both children and adults to express their insights about New York life in poetry in connection with A Poem as Big as the City.

T&W is also planning workshops at other community sites and schools. To discuss holding a workshop at your organization or school, please contact T&W at workshops or 212-691-6590.

Past Workshops

Bronx
Bronx Library Center
Grand Concourse Library
Hunt’s Point Library
287X The Forward School
270X Academy for Scholarship and Entrepreneurship

Brooklyn
Brooklyn Central Library
Eastern Parkway Library
Homecrest Library
New Utrecht Library
New York Transit Museum
Saratoga Library
PS 13K Roberto Clemente
PS 208K Elsa Ebeling
IS 392K Sutter Avenue
408K Academy of Hospitality and Tourism

Manhattan
Bloomingdale Library
Columbus Library (Teen Central)
96th Street Library
115th Street Library
Groundswell in Washington Heights
PS 30M Hernandez/Hughes
178M Professor Juan Bosch Public School

Queens
Cambria Heights Library
Hollis Library
Howard Beach Library
Queens Village Library
South Jamaica Library
Q285 World Journalism Preparatory
IS 227Q Louis Armstrong

Staten Island
Historic Richmond Town
Staten Island Museum

A Poem as Big as the City is made possible in part through the support of the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the LEGO Children’s Fund, Barnes & Noble, the Lotos Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

To make a donation in support of A Poem as Big as the City or to discuss sponsorship opportunities, please contact us at info@twc.org or 212-691-6590.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

To bring A Poem as Big as the City to your organization or school, please contact T&W’s program director at workshops@twc.org or 212-691-6590.

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