VenueWelker Room 

Date02/19/2015 

Time12:00 AM (no end time specified)  

Event TypeReading 

GenreMultigenre 

SponsorFunding for the Words Without Walls reading series provided by A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation and Chatham University. 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: Judith Tannenbaum has taught poetry in a wide variety of settings from primary school classrooms to maximum security prisons. She taught at San Quentin for four years in the 1980s and subsequently created Arts in Corrections’ newsletter Memo:Arts and their Manual for Artists Working in Prison (available for download on her website). This work led to two of her books — Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin and a two person memoir, written with San Quentin student Spoon Jackson, By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives. In addition to the two prison memoirs and her many books of poetry, Tannenbaum has two texts for teachers: Teeth, Wiggly as Earthquakes: Writing Poetry in the Primary Grades and Jump Write In! Creative Writing Exercises for Diverse Communities, Grades 6-12. Tannenbaum has served as training coordinator for San Francisco WritersCorps from the program’s inception in 1994. There’s a great deal of information on both teaching arts and prison arts on her website www.judithtannenbaum.com Reading is free and open to the public.

Primary Contact PersonErin Southerland 

Primary Contact Emailesoutherland@chatham.edu 

Telephone412-365-1685 

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Is this an open mic event? No 

Is this a book signing? Yes 

Will author's books be for sale? Yes 

Address 1Chatham University 

Address 2Laughlin Hall 

Address 3Woodland Road 

CityPittsburgh 

StatePA 

Zip15232 

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Primary Contact Emailmdruzgal@chatham.edu 

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