Writer/Storyteller, Susan Fanti Spivack, tells traditional and
contemporary tales from many cultures, and her own stories to audiences of
all ages. Since 1980 she has conducted writing-residencies (grades 1-12),
teaching poetry-writing through the senses or using poetry of many cultures
(American, Native - Afrian - and Latin-American, Russian, German, African,
Asian, etc.) as inspiration. She has taught poetry of the Vietnam War, World
War II and the Holocaust to middle and high school students, and
story-writing using folktales as models. Her goal: to help students and
teachers discover the power and joy of saying what matters with grace,
energy, and feeling.
From the back field, I hear them first, and geese in formal flight, then see one escape the vee fly crying lonely southward. From dead tree limbs the hawk leaps outward. a bluebird sings above his chosen roof. My husband and my daughter mitt and softball flinging, sweet spring training, stop to watch one rare eagle hang weighty flight toward her treetop rest. |