This residency uses improvisation to create a space where students can create poetry by conjuring concrete images to make their poems pop with detail.

Integrate natural science lessons with poetry.

Science comes alive with STEAM Writing Residencies: ecosystems, water cycle, animal adaptations, chemistry, physics and more!

From self-expression to poetry about science, social studies or literature – Mimi Herman will engage your students.

Mimi Herman leads your students to poetry and makes them think in this delightful poetry residency.

Students practice the art of “painting pictures with words” as they create stories about the most important places, people and memories in their lives.

Students learn how to write poems based on texts they’ve studied.

Students will write a creative non-fiction piece around a NC lighthouse they are studying.

Students transform memories into personal essays and celebrate their achievement.

Students will take an old photograph as inspiration and write their own creative story.