Poetry That Works

10/04/2026

Thank you to all who came out to Story Lane Book Fair!

10/03/2026

Super Turnout here at the RPL and Barrio Alegría Story Lane event !!!!

06/14/2026

Greaten with Group Poems 🙂😃Thank you Jessica Warchal-King

Flashback Friday to JCWK Dance Lab’s “Harvest Moon” video/ zoom/ dance/ music experiment. As we move forward, we continue to reflect on the journey.

This image contains a photo of the moon by Jill Haley and a screen shot of a Zoom-dance moment, performed by Sarena Gable and guided by Jessica Warchal-King.

Harvest Moon was an evening-length, virtual, new music and dance collaboration that premiered in conjunction with the astronomical calendar’s Harvest Moon, September 2021. Dancers and musicians employed the serendipitous and unpredictable nature of the internet to engage Zoom as a compositional and choreographic tool. Harvest Moon reflects on lunar cycles, cultural anthropology, the spiritual philosophy that human bodies are microcosms of the universe, and the Covid-19 pandemic. The project was live-streamed over YouTube with audience engagement opportunities through Zoom after each performance. As the moon reflects the light of the sun, Zoom allowed us to reflect each other.

Jill Haley created “Glacial Albedo” for this project with support from Reading Musical Foundation.

For more info on Harvest Moon, please visit jcwkdancelab.org/harvestmoon
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05/01/2026

Great work by the students of - half way through a few garbled lines are: “Gentle is the caress of a bright, lonely night. Sweet is the darkness against the light. God protecting you from the dark, you can feel the glow…”

04/28/2026

A New Group Poem! Thank you to all who came out and chimed in lines for the rhyme! Thank you to and and and and

04/19/2026

Two Group Poems from Earth Day on the themes of Healing Our Planet & Ways To Help Our Planet - Thank you Earth Day of Reading for hosting!

04/17/2026

Yes! Join us and contribute lines for some new Group Rhymes!!!
Earth Day Berks

Join us on Earth Day to create an Earth Day Poem with Dr T. You will find him wandering in the crowd or at his table at the Information Tent .

EARTH DAY BERKS
Saturday, April 18
CIty Park Reading
12PM to 6 PM
Rain or shine!

03/29/2026

Join us to chime in lines for Earth Day Group Poems!!
Earth Day Berks

EARTH DAY BERKS is Reading’s first big festival of the spring !
Don’t miss this great event!
Rain or Shine ! 12PM to 6 PM