Thursday, December 15, 2011

The Spartan Press Prize


Congratulations to the following winners of this year's Spartan Press Prize. These winners' anthologies have been selected, on the strength of their writing, for addition to the Homestead IMC collection, where they will receive their own call number and can be seen, read, and checked out by future generations of students here at HHS. This year's winners, out of over 100 entries:

Jamie Baer, "Subject to Change: Poems about Coming of Age"

Laura Zeng, "The Coming and Going of Age: Poems about Growing Up"

Sarah Mattson, "Poetry is Music Without Melody: Lyrics of Poetry, an Anthology"

Haley Havert, "Love So Sudden and So Sweet: Poems of Summer Love"

Sirena Hudson, "I Have an Aversion to Peace, as Does the Rest of the World: Poems Concerning War"

Congratulations to our winners and thank you to all participants in this year's competition. It was an exceptional batch of entries.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Final poem of the day

Li Po, "Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain"

Today:

1. Sew your book!

2. Prepare your presentation! Memorize your poem! Make a video! Ask questions!

3. Fill your Moleskine!

4. Read your book!

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Today, three poem videos. Here are two from the Poetry Foundation.

Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays."

Maruice Guevara, "Dona Josefina Counsels Dona Concepcion Before Entering Sears."