Denise Duhamel
Distinguished Visiting Writers in the Schools Series
Denise Duhamel taught, read, and met with Young Writers Program students and teachers at the Desert Nights Rising Stars Writers Conference on February 23, 2012.
Young Writers Program provided scholarships for twenty-five high school students and teachers from at-risk schools in Maricopa County to attend the 2012 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference at Arizona State University. The students and teachers attended workshops, readings, and panels. Students and teachers also had an opportunity to attend readings and meet with poets Denise Duhamel and Myrlin Hepworth.
Bruce Weigl—Speak Peace Exhibit
Distinguished Visiting Writers in the Schools Series
Bruce Weigl, award-winning poet and Vietnam war veteran, gave a public reading on October 13 in conjunction with the YWP-sponsored Speak Peace: American Voices Respond to Vietnamese Children’s Paintings exhibit at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), which features original poems written by American children, veterans, and established poets in response to Vietnamese children’s paintings on peace and war.
Speak Peace is an international project that closes the distance between borders, generations, and cultures. It taps into the healing power of art and poetry to reveal truths about peace and war that bring us closer together.
Young Writers Program (YWP) is a 4th–12th grade arts-based, standards-aligned creative writing outreach program with a focus on serving underserved communities. YWP provides the K-12 community with trained teaching artists and other arts-based resources to improve student writing. Through key partnerships, YWP connects talented Master of Fine Arts students from ASU’s Creative Writing Program and select distinguished visiting writers from The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing with Arizona’s k-12 community.
