“Since 2011, P&W has supported creative writing workshops for Los Angeles seniors through the sponsoring organization EngAGE. It started with workshop leader Hannah R. Menkin, and since then P&W has supported workshops led by Morgan Gibson, Mike “the Poet” Sonksen, Michael C. Ford, and Oshea “Food4Thot” Perry-Luja. The workshops, which now take place at both the Burbank and North Hollywood Senior Artist Colonies, bring together creative seniors in their sixties, seventies, eighties, and some even in their nineties. Participants are multitalented—some paint, some sing, some act—and all of them have discovered or rediscovered a love of writing. In part two of a two-part blog report, Jamie Asaye FitzGerald, director of the Readings & Workshops (West) program, reflects on an interview with a few of the workshop participants.” If you missed Part One by the McCrindle Foundation Readings & Workshops Fellow, Melissa Sipin, you can click here to read it. And here’s Part Two: Coming to Poetry Late in Life.
See photos and video from the 2015 Lit Crawl event, “On Being a Kid: A Poetry Reading by Los Angeles Senior Artists,” which featured participants from the P&W–supported EngAGE writing workshops at the Burbank and North Hollywood Senior Artist Colonies.
