The Sea Wall Society of Young Poets is a group of Key West kids who participate in workshops to learn about and begin writing poems. Stay tuned for future workshop enrollment opportunities, and check out some of our video anthologies from past workshops! While you’re here, try writing a poem on our Activities page.
Contact
To contact us, send us an email via seawallsocietykeywest at gmail dot com.
About
The Sea Wall Society of Young Poets is a group of Key West kids who participate in workshops over 2024 and 2025 to learn about and begin writing poems. Our aim is to create greater access to an understanding of poetry and the impact it can make in the lives of young people. We hope to fill their minds with the magic of words and to immerse the city’s youth in the awareness of the poetry that is inside of and all around them.
Here, we extend those workshops into a space where we hope that teachers, librarians, and parents to access activities to help children share this experience of engaging with poetry, specifically the poetry lurking in the world around them, drawing on elements of the natural environment. We also invite you to experience the wonder of words as you explore collaborative poems from the Sea Wall Society workshops and recordings of these young talents sharing their verses, rhymes, and enchantments. In addition, younger poets can find our write-a-poem panels at Key West playgrounds, coming in 2025.
Sea Wall Society is the creation of 2024-2026 Key West Poet Laureate Emily Schulten, made possible by the Academy of American Poets and the Mellon Foundation, and with special thanks to the Key West Art & Historical Society for their support.
