Poet and educator Sandy Lyne has taught poetry writing to over fifty thousand young people and to several thousand teachers nationwide, both through his own Inner Writer Program and through the Partners in Education teacher workshops of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has also taught poetry writing to adults from all walks of life in retreat, conference, and organizational settings, including the Austin (Texas) Workforce Conference, the Society for the Arts in Health Care national conference, and the Sacred Space Foundation international conference (Cumberland, England). From 1993–98, he helped design and present a program to introduce poetry writing systemwide in the Lawrence, Kansas, schools. His collection of poems by young people, Ten-Second Rainshowers, was featured twice on National Public Radio. A follow-up collection, Soft Hay Will Catch You, appeared in 2004. His own poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Poetry East, and Louisiana Literature, and in collection. He continues to give dozens of workshops each year all across the United States.
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