Welcome to Learning with Laureates. A series of Master Talks and Enrichments on various poetry, writing, community building and publishing topics from the Poets Laureate themselves! ​

Learning With Laureates: Larry Jaffe!
Beat Poet Laureate of Florida!


​Friday June 2nd, 2023 
Available at 7:00 PM
(You can watch it any time after that.) 

Larry Jaffe and James P. Wagner (Ishwa) discuss building poetry communities through events, readings and exhibits. They talk about the many tools at our disposal to communicate, why poetry events matter, and how it is possible to use long distance communication to host a series of 200 readings across the world on the same day! 

This is a great session that discusses the power of poetry communities and is a great tool for hosts/workshop leaders/ community organizers to get some additional insight! ​

Learning With Laureates: $20
(Tickets Close at 6PM June 2nd) 

Note: If you can't make the first viewing at 7:oo pm June 2nd, don't worry, you can watch the recording at your leisure. 

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For his entire professional career, Larry Jaffe has been using his art to promote human rights. He was Poet-In-Residence at the Autry Museum, a featured poet in Chrysler’s Spirit in the Words poetry program, co-founder of Poets for Peace, helped spearhead the United Nations Dialogue among Civilizations through Poetry project, former Poet Laureate Youth for Human Rights, the Florida Beat Poet Laureate, and the recipient of the Saint Hill Art Festival’s Lifetime of Creativity Award. Editor Florida Bards. He has six books of poetry: Unprotected Poetry, Anguish of the Blacksmith’s Forge, One Child Sold, In Plain View, 30 Aught 4, Sirens and Man without Borders.