Young Audience of Virginia WorkshopsThrough Young Audiences of Virgina, Mr Richardson offers a variety of workshops designed for grades K-12; interactive sessions where students not only hear and read poetry out loud, but bring it to life through the physical interpretation of the words and phrases. Poetic content includes classic and contemporary poetry related to popular themes such as Black History & National Poetry Months... Find out more by browsing the YAV web site @ www.yav.org
The Spoken Word - a history of our oral tradition through poetry, song and spirituality!  A workshop designed for children and adults to explore the history of our oral tradition through poetry, song and spirtuality. From the African Griot, to Paul Robeson and Shakspeare, from the Last Poets, to the latest generation rappers and spoken word poets; Mr Richardson demonstrates and illistrates the art of the spoken word. Excellent for students intrested in poetry, public speaking and theater!
 The Business of Becoming a Self Published AuthorA 5 hour Self Publishing workshop designed to cover the three major types of publishing; Traditional Press, Print on Demand and Self Publishing. Developed with a heavy emphasis on marketing, this course is a must for the published and unpublished writer. The cost of thsi workshop includes, morning refreshments, a light lunch, take home learning material and "FREE LITERARY CONSULTING" for one year!!! Special discount pricing available for book clubs and writers groups!
 The Craft of Creating a Poem Are you stuck in a circle of sonnets or locked in the prison of prose? The key to keeping poetry fresh and alive, is expanding your knowledge of the craft. In this workshop, Nathan will review some long forgotten classical forms, and delve into contemporary techniques that will give you new avenues to explore the next time you find yourself at the crossroad of creativy. Through dicussion and practicle exercise, you will imerge more confident after you've learned how to write outside the box you are in.
PAINT ME A POEM HAIKU #6 - "The widest river - begins with one pesistant - narrow little stream..." 
THIS WORKSHOP EXPLORES EKPHRASIS - writing inspired by art; a workshop designed for adults and children to review Ekphrasitic poems and prose inspired by both classical and conteporary works of art and photography. From these discussions students will learn ways to approach writing about a work of art. (for example - writing in voice of a person in the artwork, writing in the voice of the artist, writing about the scene, etc. etc) Students will compose their own pose and prose from images they find in art books or from exhibits in the gallery or museum.
A NEW WORKSHOP!!! When Hands Speak Eyes Listen - a poetry workshop for the Deaf and the Blind Poet/Author Nathan Richardson accompanied by Sign Language Specialist Terri Copeland will amaze and inspire your students to use poetry and other forms of creative writing as a way to overcome the challenges of communicating as a deaf or blind person. Ms Copeland uses American Sign Language (ASL) to interpret Mr. Richardson's poetry which is celebrated worldwide for its vivid imagery and themes that highlight the diversity of humanity. This workshop consists of a 15 minute performance segment by the instructors and a 45 minute student participation segment, where the class is encouraged to write and interpret through sign language, their own original poems and short prose. Blind and deaf students are also encouraged to speak/recite their poems when possible, to build vocal expression skills. 
Note: See the photo gallery on this web site for pictures from previous workshops!!! click here
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FIND YOUR ROOTS - two great workshops conducted by two great scholars during the...
