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Founded in 1967, Teachers & Writers Collaborative is one of the first writers-in-the-schools programs, with a 50+ year history of delivering innovative creative writing programs that increase access to the arts, build community, and amplify youth voices.
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The 100-Foot Poem Returns!
For the second year, T&W was pleased to partner with the New York City Poetry Festival to host the annual Youth Poetry Festival! The Youth Festival is an NYC Poetry Festival highlight each year, catering to toddlers, teens, and everyone in-between. T&W provided writing activities and workshops for youth, hosted a youth poetry reading, and…
The Story Circle Love Café – a celebration of story telling
“Ready Or Not, Here Comes Life!” This jubilant call is the title of an anthology of stories and collaborative poems created by participants in the “Story Circle Love Café,” a creative aging program offered by T&W in 2023-2024 in partnership with Selfhelp Community Services Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince Street Older Adult Center in Flushing Queens. Led by…
Familiarizing the Abstract: Making Sculptures with Blind and Visually-Impaired People
Little else feels as good as familiarity. So when poetry defamiliarizes the familiar before refamiliarizing it, the resultant effect is close to transcendence for me. I am thinking of Robert Hass’s “Longing, we say, because desire is full / of endless distances.” We already know what longing is, as a concept, so when Hass…