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. She has taught over 25,000 teachers and students—many of whom would rather scrub a bathtub than write a poem—to fall in love with writing and integrate the arts across the curriculum. Mimi is a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist and director of the United Arts Council Arts Integration Workshop Series. She has provided over 25,000 students with writing residencies, as well as offering professional development for teachers, administrators, and teaching artists.
In addition to her work in the schools, Mimi co-directs Writeaways writing workshops in France, Italy, Ireland, North Carolina, 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
