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Cancellation Policy: Please be advised that we cannot accommodate cancellation or refund requests for The Poet’s Studio courses.
Guest Poet: Irene Latham
Irene Latham writes poems and stories from the Purple Horse Poetry Studio & Music Room beside a mountain lake in Blount County, Alabama. With nearly thirty books in the marketplace, she's known for her collaborations and for her ability to leap between genres and audiences. Poetry, however, remains her first love. Her poetry books include Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship, a Charlotte Huck Honor book, and African Town, winner of the 2023 Scott O'Dell Award—both co-written with her poetic-forever-friend Charles Waters. Winner of the 2016 Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award, her solo poetry titles include The Museum on the Moon, This Poem is A Nest, Dear Wandering Wildebeest, and others. Her latest adventure is co-curating (with Charles!) poetry anthologies, including The Mistakes That Made Us (an ALA Notable Book), If I Could Choose a Best Day, and For the Win. Read hundreds of Irene's poems for free at irenelatham.com.
Workshop Host: Georgia Heard
Georgia Heard received the 2023 Excellence in Poetry for Children Award which honors a living American poet for their aggregate work for children ages 3-13. She is the founder of The Poet’s Studio and has taught at Poet’s House, Teachers College, Columbia University, Gothenburg University, and in schools around the world. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Writers’ Workshop.
She is a founding member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and the author of 19 books. Her most recent poetry book & journal is A Field Guide to the Heart: Poems of Love, Comfort & Hope (co-authored with Rebecca Kai Dotlich), and an anthology of poetry The Woman In This Poem: Women’s Voices in Poetry. She is also the author of several children’s poetry books including Welcome to the Wonder House (Random House), My Thoughts Are Clouds: Poems for Mindfulness (Macmillan), and Boom! Bellow! Bleat! Animal Poems for Two Or More Voices (Astra Books for Young Readers).