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Shirley May believes her role is to make both performance and page poetry accessible to young people. She has worked for 25 years to promote a culture around performance poetry to make it “cool” and happening by mentoring and supporting new writers. Tanya Shirley has conducted writing workshops in Venezuela, Canada, the USA, England, Scotland and the Caribbean and has been a writer-in-residence twice at Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe and is a proud Cave Canem Fellow.
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Shirley May believes her role is to make both performance and page poetry accessible to young people. She has worked for 25 years to promote a culture around performance poetry to make it “cool” and happening by mentoring and supporting new writers. Tanya Shirley has conducted writing workshops in Venezuela, Canada, the USA, England, Scotland and the Caribbean and has been a writer-in-residence twice at Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe and is a proud Cave Canem Fellow.