Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

Tippecanoe Library 3912 S Howell Ave, Milwaukee, WI

Youth are invited to join us for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world.

Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

Martin Luther King Library 310 W Locust St, Milwaukee, WI

Youth are invited to join us for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world.

Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

Bay View Library 2566 S Kinnickinnic Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Youth are invited to join us for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world.

Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

Central Library 814 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Youth are invited to join us for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world.

Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

East Library 2320 N Cramer St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Youth are invited to join us for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world.

The Botany of Beverages: Lecture

Stone Creek Factory Cafe 422 North 5th Street, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Plants and plant products are the basis for most of the beverages we drink. Explore the ups and downs of why we wet our whistles with this plant gunk. Learn information on the familiar and not-so-familiar drinks and the botany within them.

Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

Center Street Library 2727 W Fond Du Lac Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Youth are invited to join us for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world.

Youth and Teen Poetry Competition

Milwaukee Public Museum 800 West Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The Milwaukee Public Library and the Milwaukee Public Museum will unite their poetry competitions and ask participants to consider the guiding question for Milwaukee's Field Work project: How do you see the natural world you live in?

Fieldwork with The Figureheads

Milwaukee Public Museum 800 West Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The Figureheads is a family of musicians inspiring kids with award-winning hip hop music. Participants will hear music inspired by the natural world and be guided in creating their own poetry.

Fieldwork with the Figureheads

Villard Square Library 5190 N 35th St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The Figureheads is a family of musicians inspiring kids with award-winning hip hop music. Participants will hear music inspired by the natural world and be guided in creating their own poetry.

Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

Capitol Library 3969 N. 74th St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Youth are invited to join us for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world.

Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

Mitchell Street Library 906 W Historic Mitchell St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Youth are invited to join us for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world.

Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

Villard Square Library 5190 N 35th St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Youth are invited to join us for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world.

Teen Poetry Contest – Poetry Hike

Washington Park Library 2121 N Sherman Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

As part of the Youth Poetry Contest, gain inspiration from the natural world during this poetry hike in Washington Park. Guided by the Urban Ecology Center, learn about the natural world right in our backyard. After the hike, join Teen Advisory Board members to write poetry.

Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

Washington Park Library 2121 N Sherman Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Youth are invited to join us for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world.

Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

Zablocki Library 3501 W Oklahoma Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Youth are invited to join us for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world.

Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

Mill Road Library 6431 N 76th St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Youth are invited to join us for hands-on fun, discovery, and exploration learning about wildlife you might find in your own backyard! Get inspired to create poetry about the natural world.

Poetry Walk

Lakeshore State Park 500 N Harbor Dr, Milwaukee, WI

Join 2015-2016 Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser and Angela Vicko, WI Department of Natural Resources Naturalist Guide, on a walk through beautiful Lakeshore State Park.

Hike & Canoe the Park: Explore Washington Park with Field Work MKE

Urban Ecology Center - Washington Park 1859 N. 40th Street, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Hike through Milwaukee’s historic Washington Park while learning about our urban nature-scape and hear poetry inspired by the natural world.

CANCELLED: Poetry Path Kick-Off

Central Library 814 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

This event has been cancelled. Join the Milwaukee Public Library and Milwaukee Public Museum in celebrating the opening of the new Field Work MKE Poetry Path! MPL and MPM, along with project Poet in Residence Alison Hawthorne Deming, designed a poetry path experience connecting our downtown Milwaukee locations to encourage participants to explore the world… Continue reading CANCELLED: Poetry Path Kick-Off