Words in Bloom
Senior Outreach Poetry Workshop

2000 - Present

Rosenbach Poet-in-Residence, Nathalie Anderson, has been doing poetry workshops each spring with members of the JCCs Jacob and Esther Stiffel Senior Center. Many participants come back year after year to continue honing their skills. The Rosenbach recently hosted a reading of the poets’ works, and an anthology of poems has been published by the museum.

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Rosenbach Poetry Evenings

2000 - Present

Since 2000, Nat has brought poets together to be inspired by Rosenbach collections and exhibitions. Poets have composed and read new works at the Rosenbach on topics as diverse as Dracula, Hebraica, cartography and more.

Nathalie Anderson serves as a Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College, where she directs the Program in Creative Writing.  Her first book, Following Fred Astaire, won the 1998 Washington Prize from The Word Works, and her second, Crawlers, won the 2005 McGovern Prize from Ashland Poetry Press.  She has authored libretti for two operas –The Black Swan and Sukey in the Dark—and is currently at work on a third collaboration with the composer Thomas Whitman and Philadelphia's Orchestra 2001, an operatic version of Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia."  Nathalie Anderson was a fellow at Yaddo in 1986, and in 1993 she was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.  She serves currently as Poet-in-Residence at the Rosenbach Museum & Library.