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Childrens Library Programs, Community Public, Creative Services Programs, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Programs, Live Indoor, Teen Library Programs, Tween Library ProgramsProgram Description
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The 2023 Pikes Peak Poetry Summit theme is "Art is a Bridge to New Perspectives." This year we are celebrating poetry across Colorado with features from all over the state. Full details of the event here.
All of us are already experts on something! How do we turn our knowledge into poems? How do we craft a poem from our everyday experiences? In this workshop participants will listen, write, and share together their unique understandings of how to engage with their particular corner of the world.
Susan M. Peiffer is a queer poet, educator, and youth advocate with twenty years experience working with young people in social, educational, and summer-camp settings. Susan served as the 5th Poet Laureate of the Pikes Peak region and has worked with Hear Here Poetry since 2012 to elevate literary arts and spoken word poetry in Colorado Springs. Her confessional and observational writing covers social topics through a personal lens using colorful language and unique cadences to inspire conversation and urgent action towards intersectional justice issues affecting today’s society. Susan owns Elevated Escape, LLC, a concierge sightseeing tour agency, travels as a public speaker, works with survivors of sexual violence, and is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Susan believes that irrational is not always unreasonable, that most inanimate objects come to life at night, and that cheese is milk's greatest leap towards immortality.
The workshops are provided at no cost. All workshops are 45 minutes in duration. Please prepare change for the metered parking.
Seats are limited to 10 people for this workshop. Ages 8 to 12 years.
Register here for What To Do With Blue—A List-Poem Workshop/Creative Writing Experience with Susan M. Peiffer.
To register for other workshops, click below:
Building Community, Building A Poem with Poetry Heals
Poetry, Pop Culture, and Social Justice with Michael Ferguson
3 Minutes Left— A Spoken-Work Workshop/Creative Writing with Susan M. Peiffer.
Earth Day Workshop with Ali Cavitt
The Meaning & The Music Writing Workshop with Becoming // Poetry
How You Rhyming? : Songwriting 101 Workshop with Dominque Robbins aka DMINQ
Come celebrate Poetry Month with PPLD.