IN-PERSON PROGRAM — at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA
This is a paid program. Registration is required to attend.
Part of the 2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!
Join us for the 13th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum! Register here to access the Festival schedule:
Beginner and experienced poets of all ages are invited to come and use children’s book covers as diving boards into memory and imagination. Children’s books will be on hand to browse, and participants will also be encouraged to search online for their own current or past favorite children’s books. Using one or more of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell & taste), participants will generate drafts of new poems as the vivid literary landscape of rhymes, illustration, and stories of childhood spark memories and new ideas. María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado was born in Puerto Rico & raised in Springfield, MA, and has earned degrees in German, her third language. She writes poems that code-switch between American English, Puerto Rican Spanish, German, & Farsi, the cultural languages of her experiences. Her latest collections include Thought Here Would Cure Me of There (2024) & Resistencia: Resilience (2023). For 20+ years, she has been joyfully facilitating poetry workshops including at the WriteAngles Conference & Mass Poetry Festival. earned degrees in German, her third language. She writes poems that code-switch between American English, Puerto Rican Spanish, German, & Farsi, the cultural languages of her experiences. Her latest collections include Thought Here Would Cure Me of There (2024) & Resistencia: Resilience (2023). For 20+ years, she has been joyfully facilitating poetry workshops including at the WriteAngles Conference & Mass Poetry Festival.
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