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     (Photo by CB Claiborne Photography)

    Won't You Celebrate with Me:  Honoring the Life and Poetic Legacy of Lucille Clifton
 Photographic exhibition at the Enoch Pratt free Library
June 14-December 30, 2012
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Among Poets:  Remembering Lucille Clifton, Maryland's Poet Laureate
Photographic exhibition at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum
June 15-December 30, 2012

 

 

Registration for the 8th Annual Children's Poetry Camp
Camp held in JMU's Memorial Hall
August 6-10, 2012 
9:00a.m-2:00p.m. 
Ages 8-14 years
$50 Registration fee/Scholarships available
Lunch and snacks provided

 

 

          


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  • For more information about attending the Opening reception for the Won't You Celebrate With Me:  Honoring the Life and Poetic Legacy of Lucille Clifton photographic exhibit at the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Thursday, June 14th, click here.
  • The tribute program, "Sheer Good Fortune" Celebrating Toni Morrison, will be hosted by Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, and Joanne Gabbin.  It will be held Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 7:00p.m. in Virginia Tech's Burruss Auditorium, Blacksburg, Virginia.  Ticket information TBA.
  • Rita Dove, professor and poet, has received the 2011 National Medal of Arts at a White House ceremony held on February, 13, 2012.  Click here to view the ceremony.
  • Word Is Born Writers' Society's second issue of Blooming in the Noise is now available.
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