Dare to Dream: Poetry Workshop

Celebrate National Reading Month with Regie Cabico!

Let's celebrate National Reading Month with visiting spoken word artist and poet Regie Cabico.

Join us in celebrating National Reading Month! Kick off a month of events with this 2 hour program, Dare to Dream: A Poetry Workshop with spoken word artist and poet Regie Cabico. 

During the first part of the program, Mr. Cabico will present his own works and the poetry of Langston Hughes. He will then guide participants in writing their own "I Am" poems. 

In the second part of the workshop, kids will break out into a separate space for a creative activity about identity and self-expression, while teens and adults will stay in the room to have an open mic facilitated by Mr. Cabico in a positive, nurturing space. We encourage teens and adults to choose a short excerpt from a book in advance to read during the open mic portion or share their own poetry they wrote during the workshop. The excerpt should be something that represents the reader's identity in some way. 

For ages 10-110!

Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer, having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and later taking top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. He is an NYU Asian Pacific American Studies Artist In Residence. Television credits include 2 episodes of The Poet Speaks, HBO's Def Poetry Jam, NPR's Snap Judgement & MTV's Free Your Mind, and TEDx. His work appears in over 30 anthologies, including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, Spoken Word Revolution and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Mr. Cabico received the 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers for his youth writing workshops at Bellevue Hospital. He is the author of A Rabbit In Search of a Rolex (Day Eight, 2023).

Sponsored by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County, MD, Inc.

Questions about this program? Contact the Rockville branch at: (240) 777-0140

Library Program Attendance (both virtual and in the branch) is limited to participants within the suggested age range of the program. Children attending an MCPL program under the age of 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Adults attending a program intended for children must have an accompanying child.

If you plan to attend with a group of ten or more, please contact the branch at least one week before the program to discuss how your group might be accommodated.

Accommodation Requests

People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

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