Shakespeare in Clark Park is proud to makE ART for, and with the people of Philadelphia.

Shakespeare in Clark Park is thrilled to be expanding our FREE arts programming for Philadelphia this summer with a series of community poetry workshops led by Philly native writer, performer and educator Warren C. Longmire with guest local poets each week! Sessions focus on different topics inspired by our upcoming summer production of As You Like It, July 24-28 at the Bowl in Clark Park.

Attendees are invited to learn, write and speak up at each session culminating in public shares of local poetry before the opening and closing performances in the park! Each session will also include a guest reader and poet.

Get the full schedule below and join us to raise your voice as we invite Philadelphians to join us in speaking up, making work and sharing it!

Meet Warren!

Warren is a writer, performance and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and founder of _mixlit press. Warren's work has been published in journals including Cartridge Lit, The Cleveland Review of Books, The Painted Bride Quarterly and The American Poetry Review.

He was featured in the Best American Poetry 2021, edited by Tracey K. Smith and will be featured in the anthology A Black Philadelphia Reader: African American Writings About the City of Brotherly Love (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS) in June 2024 His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop] (BUNNY Presse) was released in Nov. 2022.