Mystical beasts, magical forests, lost treasure and more can be found in this island map-making workshop. Children will create their own maps with poetic descriptions of distant unexplored islands for those daring enough to venture there. Lead by Poets House Children’s Room Director Mike Romanos.

Join Charles Waters for a morning of humorous poetry that's off the page and off the wall. We’ll write comical poems together and act them out on stage.

Charles Waters is a children's poet, actor and educator who has performed in schools and universities across the country. His work has appeared in various textbooks and anthologies including National Geographic.

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Come in costume and hear monstrous, spooky verse from poets such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Karla Kushkin, Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky, read by Poets House Children’s Room Director Mike Romanos, who will also lead us in casting our own poetic spells to celebrate the day

A panel discussion and conversation about poems written by children – and poems written for children – with children’s literature scholar Jennifer Brown, educator and founder of The Touchstone Center Richard Lewis, historian and children’s literature critic Leonard Marcus, educator Annie Wright, widow and editor of poet James Wright, and members of The Touchstone Center Theatre Ensemble, Clea Rivera and Harry Mann.

A workshop exploring the magic and mystery of poetry. We’ll write poems inspired by the earth and sky. Then our poems will be celebrated through narration, music and mime. Each child will take their poems home in an earth/sky box.

Application deadline: EXTENDED TO Friday, October 3

This workshop will examine current trends in collage-style writing, or poetry that carries meaning, emotion, and sometimes stories within lines that are nearly cut and pasted leaps. We will study a few current poets, write new poems, and workshop each other's work.

Farrah Field is the author of the poetry collections Rising and Wolf and Pilot.