February 2018 – Chrissy Kolaya

Feeling some serious gratitude for “old” students!

Woke up to a message a few days ago from the incredible, unstoppable Joshua P. Preston: “I’ll be participating in the University of Minnesota Libraries Poetry Live! Series, reading Robert Bly’s “Gratitude to Old Teachers” — followed by the work of, well, two of my teachers, Chrissy Kolaya and James Lenfestey. Tune in!”

And now you can! With thanks and admiration to Josh, Jennifer Shaw-Spence, Kate Hujda, Cecily Marcus, and the whole Poetry Live project!

@umnlib presents 'Poetry Live!'

Poetry Live! Featuring Cecily Marcus, Kate Hujda, Jennie Shaw, and Joshua Preston.

Posted by University of Minnesota Libraries on Tuesday, February 13, 2018

You can watch more episodes of Poetry Live!, their awesome Read This Book! series, and lots more cool stuff here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/umnlib/videos/

Belatedly sharing some pics of the fantastic poetry students I’ve gotten to work with this year as a Writer in the School at Morris Area High School.

Thanks so much to the Morris Area Arts Boosters for making this possible, to Ms. Moulton for welcoming me into her classroom, and to these incredible students, who rolled with every crazy activity I brought into class, from Frank O’Hara-inspired Mad Libs to Centos and Exquisite Corpses!