Please contact me for ways I can collaborate with you, your students and your curriculum this school year. Not only am I a widely published poet and advisory member of Film Columbus, but I am a former public school educator specializing in the teaching of English and film studies–National Board certified with an Ohio Master teacher license.

I am available for:

• single-day workshop
• mini-residency (5-day week)
• basic residency (2-4 weeks)
• grading period residency
• semester residency
• academic year residency
• faculty professional-development workshops

 (additional funding available through the Ohio Arts Council’s TeachArtsOhio Program via a grant application and panel review)

OFFERINGS

As a former classroom educator, my speciality as a teaching artist is to tailor experiences for your students that enhance your specific curricular needs, which includes promoting common core skills.  I invite collaboration with you so that together we can be as inventive as we’d can!  Possible workshop topics which align with Ohio’s K-12 Learning Standards for ELA include:

• How to Think Like a Poet (Writing with Metaphor/Simile)
• Using Poetry to Tell Your Story
• On Sound and Rhythm
• On Lyric Modes and Narrative Modes
• Playing with Poetic Forms 
• Writing Poems to Change the World
• Ekphrastic Writing, Responding to Art
• On Revising (Re-visioning) Poetry
• How to Read the Poetry of Cinema and Adapt Those Techniques to Your Writing
• Using Documentary Film to Write Memoir/College Essay and Promote Media Literacy
• Writing Screenplays That Capture Audience