Jay Aquinas Thompson
Organization Details
| Name | Jay Aquinas Thompson |
| URL | http://downdeepdowndeep.wordpress.com/about |
Organization Description
| Mission statement | Jay Aquinas Thompson is a Seattle poet and educator with nine years’ experience teaching creative writing to youth and adults. He has taught middle and high school students, youth and adults in psychiatric care, adults transitioning out of homelessness, and incarcerated women, encouraging writers to reflect on their lives, challenge themselves, discover the joy of language, and nurture their own humanity. He has earned a B.A. (English; Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Washington, and an M.F.A. (poetry) from Washington University in St. Louis. His poetry has been published in Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, Fog Machine, Sprung Formal, The Stockholm Review of Literature, Poetry International, Fourteen Hills, Pleiades and other journals. He is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, and an award in pedagogy from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). |
| Service(s) description | Literary Art or Spoken Word/Performance Poetry: Poetry, memoir, reflective writing, game- and activity-based writing. |
| Program impact | not provided |
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