In 2007
Florida Literacy Coalition
Keynote speaker, Awards Dinner
CT Commission on Culture and Tourism - HOT Schools Summer Institute
Co-Presenter - Emerging Voices, Writing and Performance
CT Commission on Culture and Tourism
Master Teaching Artist
Poet-in-Residence -
CT Review Literary Journal
Multicultural Connections (an EastCONN inter-district program)
Girl
Scouts of America / 'Uniquely Me' Summer Camp
YPI
www.ypi.org -
Co-educational, residential summer camp
Goodwin Elementary School
in Old Saybrook, Naugatuck HS, Conard HS, Cheshire HS Writers Block, Madison MS, Cornwall
Consolidated Schools, Columbia Little Library after school teen program...
2005/2006
Florida Council of Teachers of English
Keynote speaker
Florida Literacy Coalition - Open Books Open Minds Conference
Keynote speaker and presenter
World Scholar-Athlete
Games, Institute for International Sport, URI
Program Coordinator for the Writing/Poetry Program
(157 countries represented)
www.internationalsport.com
Amelia Book Island Festival, Amelia Island FL
A featured author and presenter
YPI
www.ypi.org -
Co-educational, residential summer camp
Sunken
Garden
Poetry Series/Young Poets
Poetry judge and mentor
HOT Schools Summer Institute
Co-presenter - Emerging Voices
CT Commission on Culture and Tourism
Master Teaching Artist
Performances in Providence, Nantucket, NYC and Block Island
Presented poetry and out loud performance workshops throughout New England,
Georgia, Florida and the Florida Keys
2004/2005
Capitol Region Educational Council/Bushnell Hall
Poet-in-residence for Images of Cultural Identity (5th grade students from
Hartford, Newington and Farmington)
Hartford Public Schools
Program Director - Words Alive in the Middle (funded by Capitol Region
Educational Council)
UConn's
Confratute,
Summer Institute, Enrichment Learning and Teaching for teachers from around
the globe
Co-hosted a multi-day workshop - The Spoken Word: Performance Poetry
YPI
www.ypi.org -
Co-educational, residential summer camp
Sunken
Garden
Poetry Series/Young Poets
Poetry judge and mentor
CT Commission on Culture and Tourism
Master Teaching Artist
2002/2003
Poetry Live/Litchfield
Performing Arts
Workshop presenter for middle school
New
England Association of Teachers of English
Workshop presenter
Greater Hartford Academy of Performing Arts
Poet-in-residence for 8th graders
Bushnell Partners Program
Conference presenter
College Explorers of the Florida Keys
Poet-in-residence for Key West High School and Sugarloaf Middle School
Sunken
Garden
Poetry Series/Young Poets
Poetry judge and mentor
From 1998
to 2001
Capitol Region Educational Council
(CREC)
Program Director for Words Alive, a
greater Hartford, CT in-school writing program. Six
high schools were involved
(New Britain, Wethersfield, Hartford, East Hartford, Weaver and South Windsor). The
program hosted noted poets and writers Naomi Ayala,
Martin Espada, Marc Smith, Jack Agueros, Gayle Danley, Claribel Alegria, Ernesto Cardinal,
D.J. Renegade, Roger Bonair-Agard, Sara Holbrook, Wayne Karlin, Patricia
Smith, Cheryl Savageau, Doug Anderson, Luis Rodriguez, Devorah Major, the
Welfare Poets and others.
If you would like a
brochure listing some of the workshops offerings, please email
upwordspoetry@earthlink.net
to request a copy.
***
Brave New Voices/Inter-National Youth Poetry Slam and Festival
Organizer/coach for
CT team
Co-organized and hosted the 1st National Youth
Poetry Slam in Hartford, CT in 1998. The event
included teams from the CT, Washington DC, NYC, Worcester, MA and a
team
from the Navajo Indian Nation of New Mexico.
Since 1998, have
traveled with the CT Youth team to
New Mexico, San
Francisco, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Los Angeles, NYC
and in July 2007, San Jose. Brave New Voices 11 will be held in
Washington DC in July 2008. Want more information, please send an email to:
upwordspoetry@earthlink.net
Member of three CT National Poetry Slam teams (1994,
1995, 1997)
Represented the 1998 U.S. team
in an international slam in Sweden
Individual competitor at NPS in the 2003 (Chicago) and
2005 (Albuquerque)
***
As a poet and performer, her work
continues to be featured
throughout the U.S. A partial
Calendar
of upcoming readings and workshops is available.
Her first book of poetry, 'Full Circle'
was published in 2000 by Hanover Press. Two
poems included in the book...
Ebb Tide and On
Aging . She recently finished
her second collection of poems 'From the Front of the Classroom',
poems on learning and teaching through Antrim House - Please visit
http://www.antrimhousebooks.com/thomas.html. As well, she
wrote a book on
creative writing for children and teachers entitled, 'If Only
Red Could Talk'. For information on
ordering any of these books, please email to
upwordspoetry@earthlink.net.
Elizabeth is a poet who believes in the idea of “poetry
as remedy and resource” and throughout her life uses writing as a tool to help understand
things that don't make sense.