CHRISTINE HEMP Writer Poet Communication Coach & Consultant
Peninsula Daily News "Poetry Doth Be Fun"
Christine Hemp has visited schools for her entire professional career. Her enthusiasm and joy in working with children has informed her own writing as well as her work in business and consulting. She is currently the poet-in-residence for the second year at Grant Street Elementary School in Port Townsend, Washington. In May of 2010 Hemp was brought in by the Bisti Writing Project for a week at Blanco, New Mexico Elementary School where the children constructed their own "Land of Poetry" in relief maps, hiding their poems and wishes in the mountains and the caves.
Christine was poet-in-residence for the Deer Isle, Maine schools and collaborated on a project with ceramic artist Eddie Dominguez where children created their own "Islands of the Imagination" where all their poems were fired into clay and hung as an archipelago across the hallway. From the east coast to the west, children of all ages have written poem after poem under Christine's encouragement.
Christine was poet-in-residence for the Deer Isle, Maine schools and collaborated on a project with ceramic artist Eddie Dominguez where children created their own "Islands of the Imagination" where all their poems were fired into clay and hung as an archipelago across the hallway. From the east coast to the west, children of all ages have written poem after poem under Christine's encouragement.
