Tag Archives: Arts
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Mayor Parker Announces Houston’s First Poet Laureate
Leave a commentApril 11, 2013 by Marcia
Mayor Annise D. Parker and Houston Public Library (HPL) Director Dr. Rhea Brown Lawson announced that Gwendolyn Zepeda has been …
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5 Writers Tell Us How WITS Teaching Transformed Them: Stacy Parker Le Melle
1March 21, 2013 by Marcia
Former WITS writer Stacy Parker Le Melle, author of Government Girl: Young and Female in the White House (Ecco/HarperCollins) and …
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The Average Fourth Grader is a Better Poet than You (and Me Too)
Leave a commentMarch 18, 2013 by Marcia
Please visit Harriet, the literary blog for the Poetry Foundation, so that you can read Hannah Gamble’s guest post “The …
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Elephant March I
2February 26, 2013 by witshouston
From WITS Intern Eriel: A little under a month ago I started working with WITS Writer MaryScott at Travis Elementary …
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Black Rock Today
Leave a commentFebruary 20, 2013 by witshouston
Today I am a small, black, little thing, the size of a quarter. Today I am a rock with a …
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Forest Life
Leave a commentFebruary 11, 2013 by witshouston
If I lived in the forest, I would see turtles and smell the flowers. I would be a bird and …
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Creative Writing Camp
Leave a commentFebruary 7, 2013 by witshouston
Registration is filling up quickly! Within the first 20 minutes of open registration, over 100 students enrolled in Creative Writing …
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An Evening of Literary Placemaking
Leave a commentFebruary 5, 2013 by witshouston
Join Writing & C/Siting Houston for an event featuring WITS founder Philip Lopate, WITS Writer Miah Arnold, and great friend …
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Dare to Dream Writing Contest
Leave a commentJanuary 28, 2013 by witshouston
The Dare to Dream … Change the World Annual Writing Contest for Kids aims to promote literacy, poetry writing, and nonfiction research …
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In My Dreams
Leave a commentJanuary 25, 2013 by witshouston
In partnership with Aurora Picture Show’s Media Arts Instructors Felisa Prieto and Camilo Gonzalez, students at KIPP Academy created short …
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To The Lady in White Cloth
1January 21, 2013 by witshouston
I saw your photo. You were sitting in a police car; you were going to jail. You were strange because …
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Outside in Winter
Leave a commentJanuary 18, 2013 by witshouston
I am outside looking at the snow falling, and I hear the wind blowing the trees. I am outside smelling …
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Tonight! Meta-Fourth Friday
Leave a commentJanuary 11, 2013 by witshouston
All Houston area youth ages 13-18 are invited to participate in the city’s first poetic choir. Come out tonight to …
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True Colors
Leave a commentNovember 5, 2012 by witshouston
You see paintings shaped in upright rectangles. But I see stars and a moon and also a blue sky. There …
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