After reading and discussing some succulent poems about food by Gary Soto, William Carlos Williams, and Pablo Neruda, guests will use Li-Young Lee’s “Eating Together” as a model to write their own short poems about food, then read them aloud!

Bio: Liz Robbins' fourth collection, Night Swimming, won the 2023 Cold Mountain Press Annual Book Contest (Appalachian State U). She has a new collaborative poetry chapbook, Fire Carousel, out with Main Street Rag Press on the subject of mental health. Her third collection, Freaked, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award, judged by Bruce Bond; her second collection, Play Button, won the Cider Press Review Book Award, judged by Patricia Smith. Her first collection is Hope, As the World Is a Scorpion Fish (U Nebraska), and her chapbook, Girls Turned Like Dials, won the 8th Annual YellowJacket Press Prize.

Recommended for children ages 8 - 10.

Limited space.  Register online.

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