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 produced a collaborative poem—“The 100-Foot Poem”—with festival attendees of all ages!

The 100-Foot Poem is an activity from Dave Morice’s book The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet. In line with this year’s festival theme, “Poetry Island: Poets in Paradise,” the poem began with “On Poetry Island I see. . . .” Attendees were invited to take a strip of paper and contribute a couplet or any line(s) of verse they chose. Like last year, the poem quickly wrapped around our tent! Thank you to everyone who contributed to this year’s collaborative poem! You can read the poem in its entirety here.

Read the complete 100-Foot Poem here