Who?

I'm Jacob Sam-La Rose - poet, educator, artistic director, creative consultant, tech consultant, editor, and photographer. When read on a screen/page, the name can be a little confusing. My mother is a Sam, my father was a La Rose, and they gave me the gift of a hyphen. I have a few basic passions - poetry, photography, and (web) technology. I'm also passionate about building communities.

What?

I've been published in a number of anthologies and journals, including Penguin's Poems For Love, City State: New London Poetry, and Michael Rosen's A-Z of the Best Children's Poetry. Beyond my own writing, I run workshops and workshop programmes in schools and other institutions. I've worked with the Barbican, the National Theatre, Arvon and Glyndebourne, to name-drop a few. I run INSETS for teachers, and professional development programmes for poets and writers. Through the British Council, I've run workshops and seminars at Botswana University and for the Ministry of Education in Malaysia, and I helped to establish the first youth SLAM programme in Finland. I've been the Artistic Director of the London Teenage Poetry SLAM since 2003. I ran the FYI mailing list for poets and people interested in poetry between 1999 and 2009. In 2008, I started The Shadow Cabinet- an initiative to pair emerging literature in education artists with an established professional in the sector, now entering its third year. I've built websites for a range of literature development organisations and artists, and I occasionally provide tech and productivity consultancy. I like to keep busy.

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This current version of my site is powered by Sweetcron, and draws together the various different strands of my web-based output. Clicking on an item in this "lifestream" will take you to away from this site to the page on which the original item was linked. In the case of clicking on links in Twitter updates, you'll be taken to the link (rather than the status itself).

The lifestream currently consists of posts from:
jacobsamlarose.com - with a focus on my work as a poet and educator
Miscellany - my personal blog
Before It Disappears - a gallery of photography, typography, illustration and design
Flickr - photographs
Twitter - status updates

I can also be found posting content to eye.heart.camera - my photography portfolio
My music preferences are logged at Last.fm

The theme used to style the output is UXcron, provided by Sweetcron Themes, with some tweaks from yours truly.