Workshops

• "On Borrowed Time: Using Idioms to Spark Poems" International Community School, Singapore, Grade 12, May 2022
  
• "1st Grade Self Portrait" International Community School, Singapore, 1st Grade, May 2022
  
• Wilmore Elementary Poetry Workshop, 5th grade, April 2022
  
• West Jessamine High School Poetry Workshop, February/March 2022
  
• Woodford County High School Poetry Workshop, March 2022
• Poetry Derby Workshop, Central High School, March 2022
• Poetry Derby Workshop, Shawnee Library, Louisville, March 2022
• "Wear the Mask": Working with Voice and Persona, 6th grade Poetry Workshop, Seoul Foreign School, August 31, 2021
• "Hold Your Horses!", Poetry Derby Workshop, Louisville Literary Arts, Feb 20, 2021
• "The Starting Line", Poetry Derby Workshop, Louisville Literary Arts, Feb. 2020
• "What is it like?" Preschool Poetry Lesson at Waterstone Academy, Jan 7, 2020
• "Let's Write Together" Preschool Poetry Lesson at Waterstone Academy, December 5, 2018
• "A Body in a Space" @ Winter Wheat Mid-American Review Festival of Writing, Bowling Green State University, Nov. 1-3, 2018
• "Animals, Animals: Crafting Poems Using the Senses", 1st grade Poetry Workshop, Seoul Foreign School, March 2018

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Available Workshops
Kristina has experience leading in-person as well as virtual workshops (through Zoom). For seven years, she taught within the IB Framework. She currently lives in the US in the EST and is available to almost any time zone in the world for teaching and will create original lessons for any class needs.

Elementary

• Animals, Animals - Crafting Poems Using the Senses
  
• Self Portrait Poems
  
• I See, You See - Life Poems
• O Let Me Write an Ode
• Look, I Found it! - Found Poetry
• Art Made From Art - The Art of Ekphrasis
• Rhyme Time! - Language Fun for Poetic Kids 
• Build it Up, Break it Down - Form in Poetry
• Collaboraxtravationalextravaganza - Collaboration in Poems
• You Gotta Start Somewhere - Poetic Starters
• Word Pool - Diving into Language
• Word Art - Broadside workshop

Middle/High/Adult

• Self-mythologies and Writing Your Own Creation Stories
  
• On Borrowed Time - Writing with Idioms
  
• Monsters in Love - Dramatic Monologue and Monsters of Mythology
• Entering the Sensorium - Using and Developing Imagery in Poems
• We Wear the Mask - Exploring and playing with Persona, Dramatic Monologue, and Voice in Poems
• Ways to Kill a Living Thing - Exploring Survival through Poems
• Sing Me - The Lyric Poem
• Slam I Can - Performance Poetry
• Busting up the Forms - Using Formal Constraints in Poetry
• Memory, Wishes, Dreams - Using our Subconscious to Paint a Poem
• Where am I From? - Exploring Place in Poetry
• The Narrative Urge - Telling Stories in Poems
• It Doesn't Matter; It is all an Experiment Anyway - Freedom through Experimentation and Play with Hybrid Texts
• Made up Dream: Taking Inspiration from Matthias Svalina's Dream Delivery service
• Re-Vision: Revision strategies for poems
• Word Art: Broadside workshop