Let your creative energy out with 2025 Rhode Island Youth Poetry Ambassador Robin Linden in this three-session poetry seminar!

Registration Required. Must attend all three workshops. Best for students in grades 6-12. 

Workshop 1: The first class begins with an introduction describing poetry’s impacts on community, as well as an outline of the upcoming writing process. The workshop leader reads their favorite poems and then introduces prompts and ideas for students' own poems. The remaining time is for brainstorming words, themes, and concepts for creating poems in Workshop 2.

Workshop 2: The second class reviews poetry methods discussed in the first workshop. The workshop leader reads their own poetry as an example and then explains their creative process. The brainstorming from the prior workshop is used to start creating poems, with the workshop leader facilitating. By the end of the workshop, a rough draft of the poems are completed, with the workshop leader answering questions and offering guidance on the work.

Workshop 3: The third class completes the poems started during workshop 2. Students and the workshop leader will share their poems, with a discussion following. In the discussion, students are encouraged to share positive feedback about their peers' poems. Students leave with their poems, and with permission, poems will be published online.