Readings & Workshops

“It is poetry that holds the songs of becoming, of change, of dreaming, and it is poetry we turn to when we travel those places of transformation.”

Joy Harjo, Mvskoke,
former U.S. Poet Laureate

Bertha Mae Lake by Celeste Dodd_Suzanne Simons Poet

Photo by Celeste Dodd

Suzanne is available for readings and workshops in K-12 schools, youth organizations, health care facilities, correctional facilities, faith communities, and other organizations.

Choices of workshops include:

  • Generative

  • Craft, such as poetic forms (spatials, ekphrastic, odes, elegies, epistolaries (didactic), limericks, sestina, villanelle, abecedarian, erasure)

  • Revision

  • The Power, Peril and Promise of Poetry

  • Science Poetry

  • Nature/Environmental Poetry

  • Poetry of Middle East Cultures

  • Poetry in Translation

  • Lectio Divina

Poetry reading

This video is an excerpt of an event recorded by the Olympia Poetry Network in October 2021.

Contact Suzanne for readings and workshops