Poetry Workshop conducted by Kansas Poet Laureate, Wyatt Townley

Wyatt Townley, the Kansas Poet Laureate stayed at the library after Booked For Lunch and taught 14 participants how to write an American Cinquain poem. This workshop was sponsored by the Patricia A. Embree Trust Fund at the Thomas County Community Foundation.

Wyatt had us begin by thinking about home.  What was in each room of our house. Then we choose a room and thought about it for about 5 minutes. We then wrote some notes down on our thoughts.


A Cinaquain poem is a poem that has 5 stanzas with different syllables on each line. Once we had grasped that, we tried our hand at writing something.  Most of us shared our creations with the group.  We had some real talent.  We need to start a poetry group so that such gifted communicators can begin to share their thoughts and creativity with others!