TEA TIME WITH THE POET LAUREATE COLUMN

RASPBERRIES & WRITING : A WRITERS GUIDE

RASPBERRIES & WRITING

PATHW AYS O F PREPARATIO N | INTO THE W O N DERFUL W O RLD OF WORDS

Poet Laureate, Semaj Brown transforms her original writing, “Mother’s Raspberry Lessons,” into a 5 part allegory that teaches discernment and determination. Ms. Brown adds thought provoking questions, valuable Points of Preparation, and golden notes to guide future elementary, middle, and high school students through the wonderful world of words—careers in writing. The introduction is signature, Semaj Brown combining art and science, a STEAM The New McCree Theatre introduces the “Youth Virtual Art Explosion Series” featuring Semaj Brown as she welcomes you to the Wonderful Word of Words. The virtual presentation introduces youth to a 5 Part Writing Guide, Pathways of Preparation: The Wonderful World of Worlds.

workshop playground, presenting lessons on plant and tree development, analogous to human maturation. Utilizing a bit of comedy to what could otherwise be a mundane subject, Semaj compares beans with beings, tree roots with historical roots, and suggests that the diversity of curved, straight and wide canopy growth patterns of trees, reflect how people too, prepare and succeed differently on varying pathways.