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“The workshop went by far too quickly, and students left class eager for more—they were truly excited about poetry! As any English teacher knows, this feat is difficult to accomplish and should be celebrated when achieved.”
Lisa Powell
English Teacher
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School
“Poetix had even the most reluctant student scribbling furiously in their journal.”
Stephanie Wilder
English Teacher
Swannanoa Valley Youth Development Center
“I was thoroughly impressed with Graham Hackett’s extraordinary ability to not only build immediate rapport with these challenging students… but the ability to transform juvenile delinquents and offenders into expressive poets and artists.”
Robert Peter Jacoby, M.S., LPC
Lead Clinical Therapist & Program Manager
Horse Sense of the Carolinas, Inc.
“Poetix is one of the best seminars we’ve ever had.”
Karen Peerson
Executive Director
Buncombe Alternatives
“I sincerely feel that all of the students learned something about spoken word poetry as an art form; the poets at our school learned something about technique, and that many students who appreciate literature, but haven’t yet written their own verse were inspired to do so.”
Heidi Freeman
English Teacher
Asheville High School
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