Bring Diane Asitimbay to Your School!
Diane Asitimbay is the author and poetry performer of No Perfect People, Please! Diane’s presentations weave poetry performance and information on the writing process into an entertaining and inspirational presentation.
Home: San Diego, CA
Travels to: Diane will travel outside San Diego County but travel and lodging expenses apply.
Diane has also written: What’s Up America? A Foreigner’s Guide to Understanding Americans.
Please contact Diane for more information on fees.
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Biography
Diane grew up in a suburb of Detroit. She studied international relations at Michigan State University, and when she graduated, she moved to New York City. She has worked at a variety of jobs while she continued to write, including a legal copy editor, an administrative assistant, a Spanish legal interpreter and a journalist for a daily English newspaper in Mexico City. For the last twenty years, she has taught English to international students and has turned their many questions about the U.S. into a book called What’s Up America? A Foreigner’s Guide to Understanding Americans, for which she won a Fresh Voices Travel Guide Finalist Award from the Writers Marketing Association. Diane currently lives in San Diego, California, with her husband and daughter.
Event Description
Poetry Performance
Instead of merely reciting poetry, Diane presents dramatic interpretations of her humorous works for this interactive poetry performance. Children will especially enjoy creating the sound effects for her poems. For older students, Diane will discuss the writing process and how she comes up with story ideas. For children ages 6 – 12, Diane will perform poetry readings in your classroom or for school assemblies.
How a Poem Grows: Classroom Writing Workshop
Children are naturally inclined to rhythm and rhyme and this workshop draws upon their love of rhyme and build’s students’ skills of descriptions by using all their senses. Diane shows the process of creating a poem by demonstrating how an idea for a person or object can become a list poem, an invention poem, or a recipe poem. Poetry writing is a great way to expose students to the arts and expand the way they see things.
The Picture Perfect Kids: Parent-Sharing Workshop
Families come in all shapes and sizes. Though we try to raise picture perfect kids, every kid has his or her own character. We will share parenting stories in this made-for-parents workshop will have the opportunity to listen to Diane performing humorous poems from her latest book, No Perfect People, Please! Great to enliven your parent-teacher meetings. This is also a refreshing workshop for non-profits or parenting groups.
