ST. CROIX — Thirteen 4th-8th grade students vied for spelling supremacy during the St. Croix District Spelling Bee on Thursday morning at Free Will Baptist Christian School. Eleven-year-old Rayan Felix,
ST. CROIX — Thirteen 4th-8th grade students vied for spelling supremacy during the St. Croix District Spelling Bee on Thursday morning at Free Will Baptist Christian School. Eleven-year-old Rayan Felix,
Thirty-six spellers from 33 different schools came together to compete in Alachua County’s annual spelling bee in hopes of moving to the regional bee in Jacksonville and becoming a nationally recognized speller in Washington D.C. The only homeschooled student to attend was crowned the winner and will advance to the next round.
In the 10th round of competition, a seventh-grade student at Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School won The Daily Star Regional Spelling Bee, held Saturday, Feb. 3 at SUNY Oneonta.
Even the idea of a “collection” of poetry as a stringing together or collation of poems problematizes ideas about the binary of or divisions between beginnings and endings, openings and (en)closure, repetition and variation, unity and multiplicity, which is to say: affinity, connectivity. Entering the chat is José Olivarez’s Promises of Gold/Promesas de oro (Henry Holt and Co., 2023), published dos-à-dos in English and Spanish, whose audio version begins with applause.