Bay Area poetry “Olympics” trials start tonight in Oakland (Oakland Local)

Posted: March 12th, 2010 by Yahoo! News Search Results for poetry

This week hundreds of young poets, ages 13 to 19, are preparing to compete in what some would consider the Bay Area’s version of Olympic trials for poetry. The 14th Annual Teen Poetry Slam kicks-off on tonight, March 12 at 7pm, with a preliminary round at Pro Arts Gallery in downtown Oakland (99 Kahns Alley, Frank Ogawa Plaza). San Francisco and Berkeley will also host preliminary rounds in ...

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Students embrace poetry recital competition (The Record and Herald News)

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Vernon Township High School recently participated for the first time in the national “Poetry Out Loud” contest, which challenges students from across the country to find a published poem they like and make it their own.

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Spring Creek High student to compete at state poetry finals (Elko Daily Free Press)

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RENO — Spring Creek High School student Amanda Lloyd and 14 other semi-finalists will demonstrate their poetry skills for national honors and scholarship prizes on Saturday at the Fifth Annual Nevada State Finals of Poetry Out Loud.

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AAA7 announces senior citizens art show essay/poetry contest (The Ironton Tribune)

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Are you age 55 or older with a talent for art or poetry/essay writing? If so the Area ...

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âGirl Talkâ poetry reading Saturday at West Caldwell library (The Progress)

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West Caldwell twp. – In honor of Women’s History Month, 30 women poets from throughout New Jersey will read some of their published poems during “Girl Talk: A Women’s Poetry Reading” at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 13 in the Community Room of the West Caldwell Public Library, 30 Clinton Road.

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Wells pupils learn the art of poetry (EDP24 – Eastern Daily Press)

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An acclaimed children's writer explained the power of poetic performance as she encouraged Wells youngsters to enter a school recital competition. Coral Rumble has published three collections of poems for children and is also one of the writers of the CBeebies TV show Poetry Pie.

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Why poetry and pop are not such strange bedfellows (Guardian Unlimited)

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What is it about Yeats that is so attractive to rock stars, and why does Auden have the crowd moshing at the Forum? Graeme Thomson meets the musicians turning poetry into pop One day in 2005, Mike Scott decamped to his music room armed only with a long-cherished dream and a copy of WB Yeats's greatest hits, a brick-like anthology of the late poet's collected works. For a fortnight, the leader of ...

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