“Yes, disaster looms.
Still we’ll share a cup of tea.
Beginning, middle, end.”
- by Robin Lampman
This poem is more relevant than ever. After the long haul of the pandemic, we are still waking up to endless horrible news around us.
Starting our Community Poetry and Tea led by Robin Lampman this spring with Rumi's poetry. Co-hosted by Fifa Atef. Join us to read, write and share tea. Share the beauty around us and empower us to continue on whatever journey we take. Bring a piece of Rumi poetry with you. All languages are welcome!
Free admission.
Space is limited. RSVP required.
About Robin Lampman:
Robin Lampman is a published poet and an educator with 35 years of experience teaching in universities, high schools, and elementary schools. She has a Master’s Degree in Bilingual Education and has taught literature in two languages in the public schools in New Mexico, Texas, and New York as well as at the University of Monterrey in Mexico and the American School of Madrid in Spain. She has also taught English as a Second Language to adults at the University of Texas in Austin and at the El Paso Community College in El Paso. Texas. She produced a volume of poetry by eighth graders in East Harlem which was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and published by the Big Read. For the last several years she has been teaching writing classes for The Noble Maritime Collection. She developed and taught an adult class on Poetic Forms and taught classes on the reading and writing of literature in two languages. Robin is currently teaching a class on writing poetry at the Hill Street Community Garden as well as conducting the Shakespeare Reading Group at Art on the Terrace. In addition, she is Editor in Chief of Unspoken Word, an online international literary magazine.