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For over 15 years, Valerie has taught classes and workshops in writing and performance, often with her partner Michael Brown. Solo or together, they are both dedicated teachers who are adept at their craft.
Workshops include: The Business of Writing, Clothesline Poems, Ekphrastic Poetry, Writing (and ReWriting) History (Poetry), Exploring Nature Poetry, Put the FUN in Reading with Kids, Singing the Bones (Poetry & Performance), Using Duotrope Submission Tracking Software, and The Craft of Writing Poetry.
Valerie has taught workshops at Duxbury Before and After Dark Program, Brockton High School, Boston Public Library, The National Poetry Slam, Massachusetts Poetry Festival, and teaches regularly at the Cobscook Community Learning Center and Sunrise Senior College in Maine.
Valerie Lawson's work has been published in Main Street Rag, BigCityLit, About Place Journal, and others with work forthcoming on American Arts Quarterly's website. Lawson's first book, Dog Watch, from Ragged Sky Press, was released in 2007. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Lawson won awards for Best Narrative Poem and Spoken Word at the Cambridge Poetry Awards and was a finalist for the 2015 Rita Dove Award and the 2013 Outermost Poetry Prize. Lawson was invited as a Legacy Poet to the first Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2007.
With her partner, Michael Brown, Lawson co-edits Off the Coast literary journal and teaches poetry at Cobscook Community Learning Center, where she is the Community Program Manager, and Senior College at the University of Maine in Machias, where she is currently studying Book Arts. Lawson served on the board of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance from 2013-2015.
Valerie Lawson is listed at Find Maine Writers (http://find.mainewriters.org/writers/valerie_lawson/), Poets & Writers Directory of Writers online (https://www.pw.org/content/valerie_lawson), and on the Boston Poetry Slam website (http://bostonpoetryslam.com/find-a-poet/poets/valerie-lawson).
Institution/Business Type:
Artist / Creative (Individual)
Legal Status:
Commercial / For profit - Corporation
Year Founded:
2003
Institution/Business Type:
Artist / Creative (Individual)
Legal Status:
Commercial / For profit - Corporation
Year Founded:
2003
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Humanities - LiteratureAdditional Disciplines:
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Massachusetts Poetry Festival
Date: 05/2015
Presented The Business of Writing workshopParticipated in the Small Press Fair with Off the Coast Journal
Boston Poetry Festival
Date: 04/2015
State: MADate: 4/2015Activity: Concert/performance/reading/emceeEmail: TapestryofVoices@yahoo.comPhone: 617-723-3716
Advanced Summer Leadership Program
Date: 07/2006
State: MADate: 7/2006Activity: Concert/performance/readingEmail: jgilbert@cccollaborative.orgPhone: 508-534-5099
Brockton Public Library Reading Series
Date: 05/2006
State: MADate: 4/2006Activity: Concert/performance/readingEmail: SoaringSky@aol.comPhone: 508-584-1287
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$100Ages Served:
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$100Technical Requirements:
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$100 - $750State of Residence:
Maine