Tea followed by a bilingual Spanish/English group reading of the poems of Julian de Burgos from her book “Song of the Simple Truth”. Then write and share our own poems inspired by Julia. Julia de Burgos was born in Puerto Rico in 1914 and died in New York City in 1953. A cultural icon now, she was shamefully neglected in her lifetime. We will honor her by reading her poems, writing our own, and sharing our thoughts over another cup of tea.
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.