artists in ed.: 2/6

victoria park secondary school's the second school participating in my 25-hour poetry toolbox workshops. the school's fantastic librarian set the workshops to reach two groups (divided as juniors and seniors), and i will spend five full days teaching between november 2006 and april 2007. for our first day, we worked with stream-of consciousness, ear-cleaning, personal definitions, and neologisms. i brought in just over 15 books of canadian poetry and 5 anthologies, which students spent time perusing for vocabulary and potential epigraphs. neat conversations arose from poems that intrigued the readers; excited and surprised to see crystallography engaged so immediately and knowledgably. venright's and alland's work popular with both groups.

next workshop: collaboration (multiple writers and writer/computer).