The winners of the Earth Day photo and poetry contests have been announced. Charlene Fiehn is the winner of this year’s photo contest. However, organizer Ross Davies noted, “Our top three this year is a real family affair.” Fiehn’s two children, Joe, 10, and Rachael, 13, came second and third. The winning family received a […]
Kendall Grimes, a junior at Battle Ground Academy, has reached the finals of Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry recitation contest attracting students from across the country. After making it through her school and state competitions and then the 2021 national semifinals, the two-time Tennessee State champion will face eight others for the national title. […]
In conjunction with the Germantown Community Library, the Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Department of Public Works, the Public Art Commission launched Word Travels, an annual sidewalk poetry contest earlier this year. New, aspiring or professional writers of any age living or working in Germantown were invited to submit a poem or song […]
ELIZABETHTON— The ElizAlliance recently announced the winner of its April poetry contest, held in honor of National Poetry Month. The winner is Amanda Baxter, 31, an Elizabethton resident and mother of three girls aged 11, 5 and 4. She is originally from Oklahoma, but has resided in Tennessee for 13 years, where she is raising […]
This morning it came undone in my arthritic fingersin the form of an easy to tear perforation on the milk carton,it was a very small kind of mother, smaller than the motherI encountered in myself, waiving late fees while working at the librarywhen the nursing student in her final week eats Oreosfor dinner came to […]
‘He is truly an unsung hero whose song needs to be heard,’ says project committee member Sir Robert Barrie It’s time to rhyme and learn more about this town’s namesake. The Sir Robert Barrie Poetry Competition is open to all grade 8 and 9 students in the city. First place in the contest carries a […]
NSCC Arts and Science teacher Melanie Dusseau addressed the audience at the NSCC Poetry Reading event. Photo provided Northwest State Community College in Archbold recently recognized three students for their winning entries in the college’s annual poetry contest, held in conjunction with April’s National Poetry Month. All winners received a cash prize […]
Posted on May 5, 2021 at 6:27 p.m. by West Side Rag The hottest T in town. By Carol Tannenhauser Our West Side Rag T-Shirt-for-a-poem contest taught us a few things. First, people really like our T-shirts (although some prefer colors over white.) Josh P. wrote: “This shirt is Zizmorcore’s ultimate holy grail.” Zizmorcore is […]
The best poems in this year’s Friends of the Waccamaw Library competition have a more serious tone than last year. Cathy Filiatreau, president of the nonprofit poetry, said it was reflective of the students who have spent the past year coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and all the challenges that have come with it. This […]