A FREE WEEKLY meetup on Zoom on the spoken word prose of iconic author and poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). offered for English Language Arts educators to creatively teach, teaching storytelling artists to perform, students and adventurers of literature to explore Dunbar's life, times and poetry. Find out why he's worthy of a Pulitzer Prize, considered the father of the spoken word movement and America's Shakespeare.
You'll learn techniques on delivering, reading, presenting and teaching Dunbar's northern and southern dialect spoken words.
Based on the workshop, A Poetic Approach To Storytelling on p. 289 of Literacy Development in The Storytelling Classroom published in Libraries Unlimited, edited by Sherry Norfolk, Jane Stenson, and Diane Williams.
Discover and bring a poems of your choice @ www.PaulLaurenceDunbar.org