NEW JERSEY
WRITERS PROJECTThematic Residencies:
Poetry | Prose | Multi-Disciplinary | Costs & Application Process
Poetry
The Artful Poem
By Therese Halscheid
In this poetry residency, students will explore elements of artful poems and practice ways to enhance imagery. Unlocking their own inner voice - the potent language of the interior self -, participants call attention to life's details turning the ordinary into something extraordinary.
Grades: K-12; Professional Development
Curricular tie-ins: English
Options: 4-day, 8-day, 12-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
Developing the Writer's Eye
By Therese Halscheid
"Once every people in the world believed that trees were divine, and could take a human or grotesque shape and dance among the shadows.... They saw in the rainbow the still bent bow of a god thrown down in his negligence; they heard in the thunder the sound of his beaten water-jar...." - W.B. Yeats
As in the past, we will enter the present. In this workshop, participants will experience an old way of seeing and learn the difference between the daily eye and the writer's eye. Participants come to know the wisdom of the ancients - and from that perspective, explore creative writing.
Grades: K-12; Professional Development
Curricular tie-ins: English
Options: 4-day, 8-day, 12-day options
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
Earth Images
By Therese Halscheid
Through photography, natural sounds, and earth-related objects, students discover how the earth develops the writer's eye, evokes unusual imagery, enhances ways of perceiving, and develops keen powers of observation. These are tools that can strengthen the language of poems and demonstrate how the relationship between nature and mankind can be used to create fresh and profound metaphors for poetry.
Grades: K-12; Professional Development
Curricular tie-ins: English
Options: 4-day, 8-day, 12-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
Heightening the Senses to Write
By Therese Halscheid
A workshop which utilizes the senses, perceptions, and personal experience to evoke imagery and creative thought. Participants learn strategies that heighten the all five senses for the purpose of creative thought and learn successful techniques for transferring thought through print. The workshop also shares ways of blending writing across the curriculum and can be adapted to meet the needs of any age or grade level.
Grades: K-12; Professional Development
Curricular tie-ins: English
Options: 4-day, 8-day, 12-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
Stream of Poetry:An Exploration of Imagery and Verbal Energy
By Luray Gross
Students compose poems using forms and approaches inspired by streams, from the smallest tributaries to mighty rivers. The residency is designed to increase writing fluency, to embolden reluctant writers and to harness the energy of the enthusiastic writer. The work will encourage sharp imagery and will emphasize the power of well-chosen nouns and verbs.
Grades: To be determined by teaching artist
Curricular tie-ins: science, visual art, performing art, music
Options: 4-day, 8-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
What Goes Around: Poetry and Sound About the Earth
By Anndee Hochman
"What Goes Around" blends poetry, invented instruments, performance and ecology into a lively, hands-on workshop. Students create poetry inspired by the living world, discover "found poetry" and recycle it into a collaborative piece with an environmental theme.
Grades: 4-8; Professional Development
Curricular tie-ins: science, English, music, performing arts
Options: 8-day, 12-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
Prose
Write & Draw Workshop
By Meredith Sue Willis
This creative writing residency focuses on the relationship between words and drawing, and uses art to stimulate words, and words to stimulate drawing. Students engage in a variety of artistic and literary activities to generate a piece of artwork and a piece of writing that may be shared with other classes in the school.
Grades: 2-5
Curricular tie-ins: English, visual arts
Options: 8-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
Multi-Disciplinary
Beyond Haiku: Traditional Poetry, Japanese-Style
(Poetry or Prose)
By William J. Higginson
For over a thousand years, the Japanese people have communicated with each other through poems. This residency offers an in-depth exploration of Haiku and provides students with examples of the poetic form written by Japanese and American writers. Using this fun form of expression, students create and share their own Haiku poetry.
Grades: 4-12
Curricular tie-ins: English, social studies; Professional Development
Options: 4-day, 8-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
Create-a-Culture: Exploring Imaginary Worlds
(Poetry, Prose, or Playwriting)
By Penny Harter
This residency addresses collaboration and multiple learning styles as students are encouraged to work in groups to create a fictional culture, past, present and future. Workshop may involve classroom teachers from a variety of disciplines to provide students with examples of all cultural media
Grades: 4-12
Curricular tie-ins: English, science, social studies, visual arts, performing arts, music
Options: 12-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
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Creating a Written Collage: "Paterson" by William Carlos Williams
(Poetry or Prose)
By Penny Harter
Introducing selections from Williams' epic poem, Paterson, the teaching artist leads students to examine both content and technique in Williams' collage of natural, personal, and historical information of the city with the same name. Using this example as inspiration, students write their own pieces based on a city or landscape of their choice.
Grades: 6-12
Curricular tie-ins: English, social studies, visual arts
Options: 8-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
A Dialogue Across Time
(Poetry or Prose)
By Penny Harter
Exploring ancestors and imagining the descendants yet to arrive, students embark upon an exploration of self through family. Students write a creative piece based upon research and imagination.
Grades: 4-12
Curricular tie-ins: English, social studies
Options: 4-day, 8-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
Honoring the Earth: Nature Writing
(Poetry or Prose)
By Penny Harter
Grades: 2-12
This residency focuses on poets, essayists and fiction writers who emphasize the natural world in their work. These works provide inspiration for creative writing that fuses creativity with scientific knowledge.
Curricular tie-ins: English, science, visual arts; Professional Development
Options: 4-day, 8-day, 12-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
Literary Magazine
(Poetry or Prose)
By Meredith Sue Willis
Beginning with creative writing lessons focusing on vivid language, personal experience, and revision, this residency engages students in the producing an class anthology of creative work. Students collaborate on anthology layout, cover design, and publishing.
Grades: 2-12
Curricular tie-ins: English, visual arts
Options: 8-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
Writing to Art
(Poetry or Prose)
By Penny Harter
Students respond to a work of visual art creating "word pictures" and using sensory images to describe aspects of the artwork. Residency can be tailored to address specific artworks, or themes.
Grades 2-12
Curricular tie-ins: English, science, visual arts
Options: 4-day
(Additional costs, including travel, may apply)
Costs
4-day residency - $1,450.00
8-day residency - $2,875.00
12-day residency - $4,350.00
Travel expenses
$0.26/mile x # of miles traveled by artist to and from the school
For distances traveled over 50 miles - additional $10.00/day
For distances traveled over 100 miles - additional $20.00/day
For distances traveled over 150 miles - additional $30.00/dayApplication Process: Call Jackie Bruchman, Education Office Manager at (973) 514-1787, ext. 21 to apply.
