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This year marks the silver anniversary of National Poetry Month. For 25 wonderful years, a celebration of poetry has taken place in the month of April.
This event was introduced in 1996 and was organized by the Academy of American Poets. Their reason for starting this event was to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States. Their perseverance is paying off. I have seen numerous schools highlight this event, and recently I noticed a complete bulletin board dedicated to National Poetry Month. I nearly dropped my phone upon seeing it.
My mom enjoyed poetry and often hung some of her very favorite poems on our refrigerator. Scoping out the fridge for leftovers was an educational experience if you took the time to read the poem on the front door. Mrs. Vonderheide, my seventh and eighth grade English teacher, also inspired me to read poetry. I can still recall her reciting “Paul Revere’s Ride,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Half
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Jim Moll may not be the smartest man in Springfield, but the Hanson Professional Services engineer sounded like it during a public meeting held last week to discuss progress on a rail line under construction along 10th Street. The new line will replace tracks along Third Street. Moll s been in charge of the $353 million project for more than a decade, and he says it s on time and on budget. The feds gave the green light in 2012 and have paid millions of dollars since then to make it happen – there remains a $60 million gap, Moll says, but he s confident that the money will come. He seems to know every detail, from construction costs to whether charging stations for electric vehicles will be included in a planned transportation center adjacent to the Sangamon County courthouse on Ninth Street.
February 26, 2021
When Lawrence Ferlinghetti died this week at age 101, nearly one month shy of his 102nd birthday, many of my friends, even writer friends, expressed surprise on social media.
I didn’t even know he was still alive!
Indeed, Ferlinghetti outlived all the younger Beat writers he once published, including Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Greg Corso. When
The New York Times, in a 2005 interview, asked him why, he answered, “Kerouac drank himself to death, and Burroughs, when he was young, thought the healthiest person was one who had enough money to stay on heroin all his life. I really never got into drugs. I smoked a little dope, and I did a little LSD, but that was it. I was afraid of it, frankly. I don’t like to be out of control.”
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“The Lincoln Laureates” Podcast Debuts Today, Lincoln’s Birthday!
February 12, 2021 GMT
Lincoln Laureates Podcast
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ What do American composer, pianist, songwriter, singer, and former child piano prodigy Emily Bear, television journalist, television producer, narrator, and news anchor Bill Kurtis, and award-winning author, columnist, and television political commentator George Will have in common? Answer: all three are Lincoln Laureates of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, and all are featured in the inaugural season of The Lincoln Laureates podcast, set to launch, appropriately enough, on the birthday of the beloved 16th President of the United States, for whom the award is named.
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