Eat, Rhyme, and Be Merry

Join Robin Linn at the Abbot Public Public library for poetry and cookies on Saturday, Dec. 12 from noon to 2 p.m.

This is an opportunity to spend an enjoyable couple of hours learning about poetry in a small social setting. All are welcome – from non-writers to published authors.

In this experiential community workshop facilitated by local poet Robin Linn, the group will begin with a short discussion of poetry, including common assumptions and how poetry compares to other kinds of literature. The discussion will look at some of the different types of poetry, how poetry exists outside of schools and books, and the usefulness of reading and writing poetry.

Hands-on exercises include reading, discussing and exploring winter-themed poems, which will be distributed at the workshop.

This workshop will include a writing prompt, for participants to practice what they have learned, and an opportunity to share one’s efforts with the group. Additionally, this workshop includes the opportunity for participants to receive feedback on what they have written in response to the prompt, or on a short poem they have previously written and brought to the workshop. All sharing by participants is voluntary.

This program is limited to 15 participants. Please register at the Main Desk or call 781-631-1481.

Robin Linn is a poet, writer and visual artist. Using her theme “poetry and playfulness,” she has led many sessions on poetry in the classroom and facilitated community poetry workshops in settings including the Brockton Public Library. For a number of years, Robin volunteered with PEN New England’s Freedom to Write prison-writing program; she has also tutored writers and taught English composition.

Robin received her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Robin’s creative work has most recently appeared in Spectacle, Identity and Otherness: Nine Poets Speak, a special all-poetry issue she assembled and guest-edited for Lesley University’s Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism and Practice. Her work also appears in the anthology A World Rediscovered, and literary journals including Saranac Review, SPECS, Redactions, Amethyst Arsenic, and Sugar House Review. Robin’s book of poetry, Fairytale-Ending Machine, was published by FootHills Publishing. Her interests include the use of art and poetry in healing contexts, and ideas of identity, perseverance and creativity. Recently she and her husband moved to Marblehead, where she is currently at work on her new book of poetry, Jane Doe’s Mosaic.