The annual Alice Hoffman Writers Retreat is always my one of my favorite teaching residencies—a chance to work with intergenerational educators and students to make poems, try new performance techniques, and showcase our work at a live open mic.
We have worked with artist David Flores for the past several years to create videos combining our writing and performance in a rich, new media format.
These student videos are brilliant. Check them out below!
Teaching the Poetry & Nature course at Adelphi University was one of the most exciting experiences of my teaching life—I loved getting the chance to explore writing through the lens of nature. Loved the chance to change perspectives and learn from students who are studying Science, Chemistry, Biology—how those subjects unearth new ideas and new chances for experimentation.
Hemisphere is a collection that uses the body and landscape as means for dialogue and exploration. I used this teaching residency to do the same. Check out some of the videos that showcase our work.
The mission of the The Girl Project is to examine the internal and external pressures of body image that teenage girls struggle with day to day. Today we examined beauty by comparing the body to the landscape of Kentucky. Students performed their work in small groups before taking the stage before an audience of multigenerational women from the Lexington, KY area. Our group shared with the young women of Be Bold and lead small writing workshops based on the writing we created. I was so impressed with the commitment and creativity of this group, and look so forward to writing with them again.
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