Calling all high school poet-activists! Join us for a session of poetry writing and climate action as we counter political apathy with poetry!

We will gather at The Climate Museum’s Soho pop-up location to write postcard-sized poems to send to our elected officials, responding both to David Opdyke’s moving work of climate art, Someday, All This, and to the urgency of the crisis our planet is facing. We will first hear from climate scientist Dr. Sonali McDermid, and then from the artist David Opdyke himself about the inspiring work, which is composed of four hundred hand-modified postcards dramatizing the struggle for action on climate. 

Following a discussion with the artist, The Climate Museum’s resident poet John Linstrom will lead us through a poetry-writing exercise inspired by Opdyke’s work, in which we will address postcards to our elected representatives that we will fill with poetry communicating, in human terms, the urgency of action on climate change. After the conclusion of the program, these postcards will be mailed, and we hope to inundate our elected leaders with poetry!

Participants will produce as many postcard poems as time allows, learn about the climate crisis and how the visual and literary arts can meaningfully engage the crisis, meet artist David Opdyke, and take part in this direct action campaign.

This workshop is also being offered on December 8.