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Artist
John Terlazzo
9+ albums
folkfolk rockSinger/Songwritersinger-songwriter
about
John Terlazzo gave his first public poetry reading at Martin Memorial Library (York, PA) when he was eighteen years old. With virtually no publicity, he read his early poems to an audience numbering eighty-five that night. Out of that reading, and in the two years that followed, Terlazzo co-founded the York Poets Union, a loosely - knit group of some 300 poets & writers who presented public readings and writing workshops. A truly egalitarian group, each member had the right to call himself (or herself) "president" of the York Poets Union if that would in some way serve them. Since that time, Terlazzo has given hundreds of poetry readings and concerts of his original songs in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, and other areas of the U.S. as well as in Mexico, Canada & Europe. He has facilitated countless writing workshops for children and adults, served as poet-in -residence in the York (PA) city schools, has publicly read from, and discussed banned books for the American Library Association, has organized and hosted public readings for other poets and writers, has led poetry camping retreats, has brought his workshops to high schools, to former and present mental patients (In Vancouver, British Columbia & elsewhere), to psychologists, psychotherapists, and other helping professionals and to the general public as well. He taught his workshop, The Secret Tells Itself: Writing as a Contemplative Act at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center every Monday nig
