2025 Hawaii School Library Conference

In this generative and illustrative session, poet, children's author, and Typewriter Rodeo founder Sean Petrie will begin by -- BOOM! -- writing a spontaneous poem from audience suggestions in less than a minute, on a typewriter. Then he'll walk through successful poetry readings and exercises he’s used in schools across the U.S. Will you act out some animal poems? Write some quick-fun original verses for each other? You will! You'll also come away with a set of exercises and poems you can use in your library or classroom, and a renewed appreciation for the joys of reading and writing poetry. (And using typewriters.)

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Have you ever wanted to run a reading competition for your students to help challenge and insipre them? Then join us for a presentation on how to organize these large and small scale competitions.  Bring ideas or examples and hear how we run district wide middle school Book Battles in Victoria, BC, Canada, and school wide competitions in Surrey, BC. There may even be some book trivia for prizes!