TerryWooten

As Michigan's poet-bard Terry Wooten has taken
his performance poetry and writing workshop
program to thousands at K-12 schools, colleges,
festivals and conferences from coast to coast for the
past 24 years. He is a two-time recipient of
Michigan Creative Artist Awards, and is the 2006 &
2007 Master of Ceremonies for Michigan's Poetry
Out Loud Program.

Offering more than ninety poets' work from which his audience can select, he
recites in jukebox fashion their requests. Performing from a nine-hour repertoire,
he has become a living anthology of ancient through contemporary literature, as
well as his own work rich in humor and lore, presented in an educational and
entertaining program. As a Michigan poet with a bioregional focus on people and
place, Wooten has written poems on diverse topics that range from Ernie Harwell
radio broadcasts of the Detroit Tigers baseball games, shipwrecks on the Great
Lakes and Spikehorn's Bear Camp.

Terry is also the builder of the Stone
Circle, a triple ring of 88 large
boulders located north of Traverse
City designed to capture the
atmosphere of ancient cultures that
gathered in family and community
groups to educate, entertain and
exchange stories of everyday life and
lore. Each summer he is host to other
poets, storytellers, musicians and an
audience of young and old who come
to stir their tales in the communal
brew that this unique recipe for
communication offers.