In School Programming

We’re proud to partner with area schools, administrators, and teachers to offer our College Essay and Poetry Workshop programs during the school day.

Poetry Workshops

During the fall and spring semesters, we host in-school Elementary Poetry Workshops for 4th and 5th graders at local elementary schools. In these workshops, students spend a month writing and revising their own original poems. Additionally, they read and analyze published poems, learning techniques such as the use of imagery, repetition, turns, and metaphor.

These workshops culminate with reading and the publication of a poetry chapbook and for each student to bring home and share with their loved ones. 

College Essay

Eleventh and twelfth-grade students in Northern Michigan are eligible for our life-changing class, The College Essay: Tell Your Story.

In this class, students are able to get all of their college application questions answered and receive one-on-one college essay writing coaching from an expert, entirely for free.

We offer this course as a two-day program to local high school teachers as a supplement to their curriculum.

Our current school partnerships include Cherry Knoll, Courtade, Blair, Traverse Heights, Homestead Hills, Betsie Valley, Frankfort, and Manistee elementary schools, as well as Manistee High School, Bellaire High School and Ellsworth High School.

If you represent a local school interested in bringing a guest teacher in to work on poetry or college essay with your students, please use our contact form below!