Can you smell your grandmother’s chocolate chip cookies baking? Dive into a cool, blue swimming pool on a steamy August day? Mimi Herman leads your students to writing and makes them think. Everyone’s a poet in this accessible, hands-on and delightful poetry residency. As your students swim through memory and imagination, they learn to express themselves clearly through imagery, metaphor and simile, and to write not only for assignments, but also for themselves. They also discover the joys (yes, joys!) of revision, and gain the skills they need to write and edit everything from poetry to the next book report. One- to three-day poetry workshops for teachers and students are also available.
Artist Background
Mimi Herman transforms lives with her warm and engaging teaching style. She is a Kennedy Center teaching artist, writer, and editor, and the director of the United Arts Council Arts Integration Workshop Series. Since 1990, Mimi has provided over 25,000 students with writing residencies, as well as offering professional development for teachers, administrators, and teaching artists. Mimi is a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and co-director of Writeaways writing workshops in Ireland, France, Italy, and New Mexico. A North Carolina Piedmont Laureate and recipient of the United Arts Council Business Support of the Arts Award, Mimi is the author of The Kudzu Queen, A Field Guide to Human Emotions, Logophilia, and The Art of Learning.
Search Criteria
- Program Type: Writer-in-Residence
- Discipline: Literary
- Grade Level: Elementary, High, Middle
- Accepts bookings in Johnston County
