Teens in grades 6-12 invited to the Board Room or Teen Zone for a weekly activity, conversation and snacks!

No need to register; just stop by between 6-7:30. You can join in the activity or use this time to study or catch up with old friends or make new ones.

This week we’ll be writing self-portrait poetry, led by Robin Gow (it/fae/he & él y elle).  If you’ve ever tried to take a picture of yourself you know there’s a lot of different angles you can capture. Self-portrait poems delve into those aspects and facets of our identities, our history, and our understanding of “self.” They can be celebrations, inspections, and even sometimes critiques. In this class we’ll talk about two different approaches to writing self-portrait poems through reading and discussing examples and then we’ll start drafting some of our own.

Robin Gow (it/fae/he & él y elle) is a poet, educator, and witch. It grew up in rural Pennsylvania and lives with his queer family on unceded Lenape land also called Allentown Pennsylvania.

Awarded the Jerry Cain and Scott James Creative Writing Fellow, Gow earned faer MFA in Creative Writing from Adelphi University where fae also taught as a professor of English.

He is an autistic bisexual genderqueer person passionate about queer and disability justice.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of William Jeanes Memorial Library.