Poetry Week

Poetry week is one of our most flexible program offerings. Participating schools can try out Hook Arts Media arts education with a weeklong poetry intensive for select students. Poetry week participants enjoy 2 hours of poetry intensives, in which they creatively re-engage with their studies while improving their written and verbal communications under the instruction of master teaching artists in addition to acclaimed guest performers and instructors.

Poetry Week is one of our most popular pilot programs. It’s a fantastic gateway to our trimester and year-long programming, providing students with one-on-one instruction under the guidance of some of NYC’s most celebrated poets and teaching artists.

Poetry with Hook Arts Media

We are proud to offer poetry intensives with celebrated professional poets as well as master teaching artists. Our poetry teaching artists share poetry writing and performance skills with their students in a variety of mediums and styles, including:

Written Poetry
Verse and Rhyme
Spoken Word
Hip Hop

How It Works

We bring a group of acclaimed poetry teaching artists to your school for a 3-5 day residency.
Each poet leads a daily workshop with a group of students.
At the end of the workshop, the students and poets gather for a community sharing session.
At the end of the week, the students and poets from each group share their new works.

Who We Are

Hook Arts Media is a community organization based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. We use arts and media education as a vehicle to nurture young people’s development so that they can change their lives, their communities, and the world at large. To that end, we:

Develop innovative arts and media education programs
Support emerging performing and media artists of color
Create pipelines to post-secondary education and employment through the arts
Promote collaborations between professional artists, educators, and communities

Testimonials

Pat

Principal / East Brooklyn Community High School

Hook Arts Media has been really integral to helping us build a positive school culture. The programs give young people a venue to tap into their own talents and feel more confident about themselves and their voice, and they share that voice with others in the school community and start to see school as a place where they can share their own talent and understand their talents, which becomes really important to young people feeling engaged in school.

Dave

Internship Coordinator / South Brooklyn Community High School

Even though the drop-out rate has lessened, the access to real economic mobility and upward mobility has not increased. The need for organizations like Hook Arts Media to partner with schools like SBCHS to offer career pathways to young people is critical to giving students a sense of future and real choice around where they want to go in their lives.

Sydney

Teacher / South Brooklyn Community High School

What holds kids back from achievement is their psychology. They believe what society has told them. My [students] grew up believing that they are bad and not worthy, so that's what they have to get over. And to be able to express those feelings, there's no place else to do that except for Hook Arts Media arts classes."

Jive Poetic

Teaching Artist / East Brooklyn Community High School

Incorporating the arts into scholastic programming helps reestablish positive relationships between students and educators in an often stressful academic environment. Using the arts as a vehicle for expression helps students alleviate some of the pressures associated with being honest and open in what could be high-risk scenarios.

Impact

Poetry Week is a fantastic introduction to trimester and semester-long programming with Hook Arts Media. Our poetry programming reaches students and helps re-engage them in their studies while providing a creative method to articulate their experiences and perspectives.

We provide performing and media arts education programs to schools throughout the 5 boroughs and customize each program to meet the school’s specific needs as well as those of our students. With a unique, student-centered approach to education, our master teaching artists build on students’ strengths while honoring their experiences and diverse points of view. All of our programs are based on the Common Core curricula standards and aligned with the New York State Learning Standards and the New York City Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts.

Truancy Reduction

Over 80% of Hook Arts Media students report that Hook Arts Media classes increase their commitment to timely attendance.

Career & College Development

Over 60% of Hook Arts Media students learn skills they plan to use to gain entry into their industry of interest.

Over 60% of Hook Arts Media students improve their time management- including class attendance and assignment completion.

Flexible Programming

Hook Arts Media offers in-school and after-school arts programs that can vary in length. In addition to trimester and semester-long programming, we also offer “pilot sessions” from 3-7 days. Fill out the form below to request a free consultation.