Using words, drawings, paper cut-outs (and whatever else we can find) we'll make poetry literally hands-on with artist and poet Melanie Hope.

Join storyteller Julia Morris for a morning of spooky chants and hair-raising poems to celebrate Halloween.

Home, poet and songwriter DB Leonard plays guitar while we read poems that invoke
the meaning of home.

Part of NYC Lit Fest 2003

Chrissie Gittins reads poems from her children’s book Now You See Me, Now You… which received the 2002 Belmont Poetry Prize.

Robin Hirsch, with assistance from his children, reads from his book FEG: Ridiculous (Stupid) Poems for Intelligent Children.

Michele Kotler will host a reading that will highlight the work of the Community-Word participants to kick off the exhibit of vibrant murals that feature the poetry and artwork of

The author of over 50 books for children of all ages, Elizabeth Winthrop will read from her new book Dancing Granny.

Richard Lewis reads his own short poems as well as the haiku of Issa and Basho. We’ll create small books, to be held in our hands, of our short poems about the changes of spring.