FREE Poetry Workshop in April in Honor of National Poetry Month!

CALLING ALL POETS (ages 8-18) in NYC! Come Write Poetry with Published Poets and/or Read Your Works at our Open Mic!
Hello young writers, Writopia Lab is hosting an open mic for New York City's young poets (ages 8-18), along with a free poetry workshop at Charles P. Rogers, located at 55 West 17th Street (between 5th and 6th avenues), on April 10th, from noon-4m. Please arrive at noon to write poetry or to receive feedback from published poets. Whether or not you have attended this workshop (or any Writopia Lab workshop), poets, ages 8 -18, are invited to read their poetry at 2 PM. RSVP via email by April 5th. You can reply to this email or call Kathleen at (212) 222-4088. Walk-Ins will be also included on a first come, first served basis. This event is free. Meet the Workshop Leaders! Paul Legault's poems have been published or are forthcoming inThe Awl, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, and others. He is the author of two books of poetry, The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010) and The Other Poems, which is forthcoming this fall from Fence Books. He co-edits the translation press Telephone Books and works at the Academy of American Poets. Christie Ann Reynolds  was the 2003 recipient of an Academy of American Poetry Award, chosen by Stephen Dunn and the winner of the 2008 New School Chapbook Competition, chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy. She is the author of three chapbooks: Revenge Poems (Supermachine 2010), Girl Boy Girl Boy (The Corresponding Society at Pratt 2010) and idiot heart (The New School 2008.) Christie Ann teaches at Hofstra University and her poems and essays can be read or are forthcoming in Barrelhouse, The Houston Literary Review, BlazeVox, EOAGH, Sink Review, Coldfront Review, La Petite Zine and others. Stalley is a hip-hop artist who has played alongside heavyweights KRS-One, Ghostface Killah, Styles P., Method Man & Redman, Freeway, Camp Lo, Jay Electronica, and Mos Def. After an injury cut short his college basketball scholarship days, Stalley gave in to his longtime passion for writing. "I guess it started off as poetry at first because it was just me writing lyrics and letting all my feelings and thoughts onto a piece of paper." His music is on MTV2, MTV Jams, VH1 Soul, mtvU, and HavocTV. He has become a mentor to poets and aspiring rappers at Writopia Lab. And more...

Christie Ann Reynolds  was the 2003 recipient of an Academy of American Poetry Award, chosen by Stephen Dunn and the winner of the 2008 New School Chapbook Competition, chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy. She is the author of three chapbooks: Revenge Poems (Supermachine 2010), Girl Boy Girl Boy (The Corresponding Society at Pratt 2010) and idiot heart (The New School 2008.) Christie Ann teaches at Hofstra University and her poems and essays can be read or are forthcoming in Barrelhouse, The Houston Literary Review, BlazeVox, EOAGH, SInk Review, Coldfront Review, La Petite Zine and others. 

Steven Karl is the author of the chapbooks, emissions/ of (H_NGM_N, 2011), (Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press, 2010) and with the artist, Joseph Lappie, State(s) of Flux (Peptic Robot Press, 2009).  He also teaches writing and literature at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY. 

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