Get involved!: NEA Big Read Initiative in Tucson, AZ

Emailed to The Bruised Peach Press by Kore Press:

Dear Esteemed Educators, Librarians & Creatives,

As some of you know, Kore Press is spearheading an NEA Big Read initiative right here in Tucson this fall. Together with about 40 local geniuses (artists, teachers, scholars, arts & community organizations), Kore plans to galvanize the community with the poetry & life of Emily Dickinson! Will you join us? Here are some of the ways to participate: 
Come / bring students to the city-wide events going on between September 22 & December 10. (see schedule below, more events to come)
Incorporate Dickinson into your classroom this fall. We have tools & ideas to help make connections. Teacher’s guides, curriculum and books are free!
Libraries: schedule a Dickinson Discussion or Writing Workshop in your branch. Kore will provide a trained MFA student or community members to facilitate.
Take a Field Trip to UA Poetry Center: creative, hands-on field trips centered on Emily Dickinson, with curricula that meets State Standards, grades K-12. Fridays, 9 am to 2 pm. Call 4 weeks in advance to arrange your trip. (520) 626-3765.
Mount a display of your Dickinson books during The Big Read.
Tell youth about the Slamming Emily workshops in 3 neighborhood libraries.
Bookmarks, posters, flyers are available to post or share, for free, from Kore.
Host a Magic Box (a drop box to capture writing). Writing After Emily exercises: study and emulate ED’s use of compression and concision. Writers drop their work in the Magic Box for possible use in the final showcase performance.
Texting Emily: creative writing classes text their Dickinsonesque short works to a Kore Press Google Voice account to receive texts. Poems may be used in the final performance, or compiled into a book.
Sign-up for the Tuesday evening City Council Read-Ins, where participants read a 3-minute Dickinson letter excerpt or poem at call to the audience.
Submit work for possible reading on the radio.
Have students create poems on an interactive webpage (to launch mid-Oct) based on the visual art of Barbara Penn, whose work is based on Dickinson.
Record your fave Emily Dickinson lines in our mobile sound booth for inclusion on The Tucson Big Readers website.
ED “mixed tape” soundscapes will be available for play in your classroom.
Paper wall hanging/installation using Dickinson’s first lines will be available to a limited number of participants.
Please call Kore Press at 520-327-2127, or write us at kore@korepress.org, to receive materials or for more information on how we can help bring Dickinson into your world this fall.
Thank you!

Lisa Bowden & The Kore Big Read Team
www.korepress.org