Poetry Writing Workshop

The Westwood Public Library will be offering a poetry writing workshop for 4th, 5th and 6th graders on Wednesday, February 22 from 3 - 4:30. Visiting poet, Jayne Warren, will talk about how she got started writing poetry, her work with poet Barbara Helfgott Hyett and the Workshop for Publishing Poets, and her experiences as a writing student at the Walnut Hill School in Natick, MA. Participants will do exercises to help them get ideas for writing poems and to express themselves through poetry, and learn how to edit their own work. Jayne has published poems in numerous periodicals, and her poem "Chairlift at Nashoba Valley" is included in the recently released anthology Rough Places Plain, Poems of the Mountains. The participants can submit their poems to the library for inclusion in the 2006 Poetry Anthologies published by the library. Call 781-320-1042 to register.