Sunday, April 15, 2012

Teen poetry

  • There is a minotaur crying with a dreary voice, a ship with death-black sails, chanting priests of Amon-Ra and a nativity tale with a quietly sceptical twist.
  • (The Guardian)
  • This is a regular column featuring original poetry and fiction by and for teens, provided by Figment.com, an online community writing site for young people.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The Swampscott Public Library has chosen the finalists for the Lee Golomb Cadiff Teen Poetry Contest. The winners will be announced at the award ceremony on Tuesday, April 24, at 7 p.m. at the library.
  • (Abington Mariner)
  • With young romance and heartbreak in mind, our teens are reading Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing by Gary Soto (Harcourt, 2009).
  • (School Library Journal)
  • April, as a growing number of Americans know, is National Poetry Month, a month spearheaded since 1996 by the American Academy of Poets.
  • (Twin Cities Planet)
  • The Beaufort Branch of the Beaufort County Public Library will be hosting a Poetry Slam/Poetry Workshop on Saturday, April 21 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
  • (blufftontoday.com)
  • Her definition: tricking your kids into learning. The actress (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Dark Angel) said her own poetry dabblings have taken a sharp turn. I have a lot of teen angst on paper, Alba said.
  • (Aiken Standard)
  • FLINT, MI—Sheriff Robert Pickell admits that fighting crime in Flint is tough, but at Saturdays Gone But Not Forgotten program, he told a crowd of hundreds that they have just as much power as the boys in blue.
  • (MLive.com)
  • On a recent Sunday, a friend read one of his poems at a hoodie rally in New London Dunham, who now lives in Cranston, R.I.
  • (Post-Crescent)

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