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Are you looking for an enjoyable and easy way to teach poetry?
Pick a peck of award-winning poets to connect you and your students to the poet within!

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Welcome!



Want to inspire your students to appreciate and perhaps even write poetry? We can help! We are three poets who are passionate about sharing poetry with the world, and we would love to come visit you!

OUR STORY:


After enjoying one another virtually over many Poetry Fridays, we three met for the first time in person at the 2013 Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival (Hattiesburg, MS). Each of us was thrilled to have poems included in THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY books brought to you by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong of Pomelo Books. We gave a presentation together and quickly discovered that a peck of poets is a heck of a lot of fun!


WHO WE ARE:


Robyn Hood Black is a children’s author, poet and artist from the South Carolina lowcountry, where Spanish moss and sea breezes rule the day.  She loves connecting kids with poetry, especially haiku and found poems.   Please visit her author website at robynhoodblack.com and enjoy her artwork at artsyletters.com.

Irene Latham's first poems were love poems -- for her mother. The author of award-winning middle grade novels and poetry for all ages, she is especially inspired by unique settings such as Depression era Gee's Bend, Alabama, behind the scenes at a contemporary zoo, or a wild Kenyan water hole. She has two new poetry collections for children coming in 2016: WHEN THE SUN SHINES ON ANTARCTICA (Millbrook Press) and FRESH DELICIOUS: Poems from the Farmers' Market (Boyds Mills Press). Please visit her website at irenelatham.com.

April Halprin Wayland is a native Californian. Her father was a walnut farmer, her mother a concert pianist.  April’s novel in poems, GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANDING, her picture books and her poetry have all won major literary prizes, she's taught across Europe and in UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program for more than 16 years, and she blogs with TeachingAuthors.com. Please visit her at AprilWayland.com where she confesses she’s “½ poet, ½ author, and ½ not good at fractions.”



Three Poets for One Peachy Price!

In order to bring poetry to as many students as possible, we have teamed up to provide affordable programming: $2500 per day (plus airfare and accommodations). This is a discount from our regular individual rates, which can be found at the websites indicated above.

Each poet will provide up to 3 presentations per day, together or separate:

-- assemblies or workshops for students
-- inservice sessions for teachers or librarians
-- extra events like lunch with students or evening book clubs or community book signings
-- or... let's talk about what works best for you and your students!



What Teachers & Media Specialists Are Saying:

"Thank you for engaging the students at this distracting time of year.
 You are magic!"

"Wow! This is the best and most thorough, practical information
 I've ever received."

"Very meaningful, with examples from real authors, class sample poems,
and reading aloud actual student work."


 Ready to schedule your school's celebration of poetry?