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From The Lily Pad

March 2025

This issue of From the Lily Pad includes:

Haiku Tips and Tricks for Students Submitting to the 2025 Virgilio Haiku and Senryu Contest
Haiku Teaching launches in Camden Schools!
What would you like to see in our next workshop? Take our survey!
Upcoming writing event with our partner, Rutgers Camden Writers House

FALL | WINTER 2024

Late Night Poetry Practice Returns to the Writers House this Fall & in 2025!

Late night poetry workshops have returned this fall. We’re honored to be able to provide a safe space for writers of all skill levels to speak their minds through poetry, especially in such polarizing times. Some of the most recent prompts from the workshop that have produced thought-provoking poetry have been “Facing fears,” and “Life and death,” in honor of Halloween and Dia de Muertos respectively and “The right to choose,” after the recent US presidential election.

As always, we’ve brought back local poets as features of the night to read their poetry throughout the workshops to help orient the group and encourage more attendees to share their own work.

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to share poetry and write in community with others. If you were unable to attend our most recent session on November 23rd, there are three more sessions on the calendar before the end of 2024:

December 7th

December 21th

January 4th

Relive the moments here on Instagram.

We’re also excited to announce our partnership with Rutgers University Camden and the Rutgers Writers House next year to bring the Midnight Notes to campus on four select dates throughout 2025. Stay tuned for updates.

Thank you to our featured poets:
• Noely (Natalie Picardo)
• Kate Skins
• Destiny Karizma (Johnson)
• Pauline Monter
• Dimitri Reyes

A special thank you goes to our host/community organizer Reet Starwind, and to our returning South Jersey-based tea vendor, Hush Herbals. And to our sponsor the Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission (CCCHC) for helping us keep this program free for attendees.

Meet us at the Writer’s House at 1801 Broadway in Camden, NJ from 10:30 PM EDT – 12:00 AM EDT for all sessions. Join our host’s live stream of this session on Instagram @mrstarwind. Because of the late start time, this event is exclusively for poets and poetry lovers who are age 18 or older.