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So You're Going to Be a Visiting Writer: How to Make the Kids Shine
Saturday, March 26, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Working with young people on their developing writing is both exciting and powerful. This panel, made up of teachers, visiting writers, and community organizers, all of diverse backgrounds, share their insights on how to have maximum impact when visiting a K–12 classroom or community center. This panel will discuss all facets of a classroom visit, and how to best set students up for success, igniting a passion for language's potential.
Participants
Joelle Biele is the author of Tramp, White Summer, and Broom and the editor of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. A former Fulbright professor in Germany and Poland and writer-in-the-schools, she teaches high school English in Maryland.
Molly Sutton Kiefer is the author of the lyric essay Nestuary, as well as three poetry chapbooks. She is founding editor of Tinderbox Poetry Journal and runs Tinderbox Editions, a nonprofit press.
Iris Jamahl Dunkle was the poet laureate of Sonoma County, California. Her fourth poetry collection, West : Fire : Archive, was published in the spring of 2021. Her biography, Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer, was published by University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.
Charlotte Pence is the author of Many Small Fires, which received an award from Foreword Reviews, and Code, which received Poetry Book of the Year from ASPS in 2020. She directs University of South Alabama's creative writing program and the Stokes Center for Creative Writing.
