"Tea and Tattered Pages" brings a little bit of magic and delight into our lives by offering a variety of activities centered around poetry, such as:

  • Out loud poetry readings, either yours or someone else's
  • Talks on genres or schools of poetry by subject matter experts
  • Poetry writing workshops (including haiku) led by notable poets
  • Analyses and discussions of poems such as "The Waste Land, "The Prelude," "Howl," or selected sections of Ezra Pound's "The Cantos." 
  • Translation comparisons of notable poems
  • Paris metro poetry discussions
  • Analyses and discussion of "100 Poems Everyone Should Know" lists
  • Discussions about the lives of influential poets
  • Visits to the graves of poets in Paris cemeteries


And more . . . your imagination and desires are the limits!

And we are delighted to have poet and teacher Heather Hartley, author of "Knock Knock" and "Adult Swim", as our Poet-in-Residence. Heather will be joining us as both guide and participant in this delightful journey.

The group normally meets on the 2nd Saturday of each month from 15:00 - 18:00.

If you would like more information or if you have questions, please email: literature@wice-paris.org

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UPCOMING EVENTS

  • LJ101 Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry

    • 10 Jan 2026
    • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Impact Café, Salle 3, 67 rue Beaubourg, 75003
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    Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry

     “Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”  -Carl Sandburg

    Program Description:

    Tea and Tattered Pages is a multi-faceted program designed to bring poetry closer to the fore in our lives, and perhaps create a small community around it. Our activities include reading, writing, discussing, reciting, and trying to live poetry.

    You can get a sense of what sorts of activities we will be doing on the program's web page:

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    January Agenda

    Note: Due to unexpected circumstances, our December session was cancelled and rescheduled for January.

    January will be our first foray into writing poetry. Our poet-in-residence, Heather Hartley, will lead the session with readings and provide writing prompts that will serve as departure points for creating a poem. The goal is to prepare us for a measured, step-wise process over the coming months that leads to us writing the one poem we have inside us that we've always wanted to write.

    This session will accommodate sixteen attendees: eleven in person, and five on Zoom. We've set up a pricing structure that acknowledges the two different modes. Cancellation with a refund is only available until Monday, 05 January.

    Note: This is the first of four inter-connected poetry writing sessions that will culminate in May 2026. Due to this modality, the sessions are only open to 1-year WICE members and WICE volunteers. 

    If you have any questions, please contact literature@wice-paris.org

    Our Poet-in-Residence: Heather Hartley

    Heather Hartley’s poetry collections include Adult Swim and Knock Knock, both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She was Paris Editor for Tin House magazine for over fifteen years.

    Her short fiction, poems, essays and interviews have appeared in or on PBS Newshour, The Guardian, The Literary Review and other venues. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent’s (UK) Paris School of Arts and Culture and has also taught at the American University of Paris and the University of Texas El Paso MFA program.

    www.heatherhartleyink.com

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  • LF141 Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry

    • 14 Feb 2026
    • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Impact Café, 67 rue Beaubourg, 75003
    • 12

    Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry

     "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry." -Emily Dickinson

    Program Description:

    Tea and Tattered Pages is a multi-faceted program designed to bring poetry closer to the fore in our lives, and perhaps create a small community around it. Our activities include reading, writing, discussing, reciting, and trying to live poetry.

    There will be no fixed agenda for events; rather, forthcoming events will usually be decided by vote as we move through the year, and published as things are decided. You can get a sense of what sorts of activities we will be doing on the program's web page:

    Tea and Tattered Pages

    February Agenda

    This is a continuation of the poetry writing process we started in January. Anna Eklund-Cheong will provide an introduction to classic three-line, 17-syllable Japanese haiku, and attendees will endeavor to distill the essence of the one poem they want to write into a haiku. That haiku will be used in a future session as a start point for further development of their poetic idea.


    Registration opens on Sunday, 11 January.

    If you have any questions, please contact literature@wice-paris.org

    Instructor: Anna Eklund-Cheong

    Anna has published over 130 haiku in nineteen haiku journals since 2015.  she has received Honorable Mention, Golden Haiku Contest, Washington, DC (2018); Runner-up, Golden Haiku Contest, Washington, DC (2015, 2016, and 2017).  Her poems have appeared in Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Blithe Spirit, Presence, Hedgerow, Acorn, Failed Haiku, cattails, and tinywords, among other publications. In October 2025, her collection Little Acorns was published.

    Website: Anna Eklund-Cheong - Paris Haiku


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  • LM141 Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry

    • 14 Mar 2026
    • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Impact Café, 67 rue Beaubourg, 75003
    • 12

    Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry

     "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry." -Emily Dickinson

    Program Description:

    Tea and Tattered Pages is a multi-faceted program designed to bring poetry closer to the fore in our lives, and perhaps create a small community around it. Our activities include reading, writing, discussing, reciting, and trying to live poetry.

    There will be no fixed agenda for events; rather, forthcoming events will usually be decided by vote as we move through the year, and published as things are decided. You can get a sense of what sorts of activities we will be doing on the program's web page:

    Tea and Tattered Pages

    March Agenda

    This is the third of four sessions aimed at producing the one poem everyone might have inside themselves that has been longing to get written.

    In February Anna Eklund-Cheong provided an introduction to classic three-line, 17-syllable Japanese haiku, and attendees endeavored to distill the essence of their poem into a haiku.

    In this session, Heather Hartley will lead the class into using that haiku as a start point for further development of the poetic idea.

    Registration opens on Sunday, 15 February.

    If you have any questions, please contact literature@wice-paris.org

    Instructors:

    Heather Hartley

    Heather Hartley’s poetry collections include Adult Swim and Knock Knock, both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She was Paris Editor for Tin House magazine for over fifteen years.

    Her short fiction, poems, essays and interviews have appeared in or on PBS Newshour, The Guardian, The Literary Review and other venues. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent’s (UK) Paris School of Arts and Culture and has also taught at the American University of Paris and the University of Texas El Paso MFA program.

    www.heatherhartleyink.com

    Anna Eklund-Cheong

    Anna has published over 130 haiku in nineteen haiku journals since 2015.  she has received Honorable Mention, Golden Haiku Contest, Washington, DC (2018); Runner-up, Golden Haiku Contest, Washington, DC (2015, 2016, and 2017).  Her poems have appeared in Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Blithe Spirit, Presence, Hedgerow, Acorn, Failed Haiku, cattails, and tinywords, among other publications. In October 2025, her collection Little Acorns was published.

    Website: Anna Eklund-Cheong - Paris Haiku


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