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Spring is sprung
The grass is ris,
I wonder where
The birdies is.
It's snowing as I write, during the last week of April. Gray verging on bleak. However, I predict that by the time you read this the world will have switched to color and fledgling poets across the land will be singing "Ding Dong the Winter's Dead!"
Join the mood at some of our spring readings. A few early birds you might have missed, but others are listed here, and more are in the offing. They will be posted on our website under News and Events.
Hope to see you soon!
Megan McNamer
Administrative Director, Missoula Writing Collaborative
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Marnie Prange, MWC resident writer at
Lone Rock School,
assists Emma in a reading of a hyperbole poem, "Softer Than My Dog."
Thanks to Barnes and Noble for hosting this April 26th Lone Rock School reading.
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My dog is softer than a pillow, than the carpet,
softer than my friend's head, softer than a ball of cotton,
softer than cotton candy, softer than somebody's poofy hair,
softer than a baby's bottom.
A LUNE FOR THE MOON
Imagine the moon
shining bright in the sky
watching everyone.
-- Emma B., Lone Rock School, Second Grade
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| Promote Poetry!
Every year 13 professional writers from the Missoula Writing Collaborative work with nearly 3000 schoolchildren for approximately 1200 total classroom hours. Our program inspires creativity and critical thinking, the skills and sustenance we all need to thrive in an amazing but difficult world.
Read more about the Missoula Writing Collaborative at our website and please keep an eye out for the DONATE button. On behalf of 3000 kids -- thanks.
Chris Dombrowski and friends, DeSmet School Reading,
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MAY READINGS
May 12 -- Chief CharloSchool ( students of Kisha Schlegel ) -- 12:50 in the lunchroom
May 14 -- Arlee School ( students of Claire Hibbs ) -- 6 p.m. Hangin' Art Gallery, Arlee
May 19 -- Rattlesnake School ( students of Jeremy Smith ) -- 7 p.m. ( 3rd and 4th ) and 8 p.m. ( 4th and 5th ), Missoula Art Museum, 335 North Pattee
Check our website for more readings and updates.
SUMMER PROGRAM
We are enrolling now for Words With Wings 2009, our summer program on the UM campus, July 6-10 and 13-17. To download a registration form, go to our website. For more information call 549-3348 or email us at info@missoulawritingcollaborartive.org.
BOOKS!
New books by MWC writers --
As Is, by Sheryl Noethe
Morgan Freeman, by David Allan Cates
By Cold Water, by Chris Dombrowski
War, Madness, & Love, by Mark Gibbons
The Lesser Fields , by Robert Schlegel (winner of the 2009 Colorado Prize from the Center for Literary Publishing).
CONGRATS!...
To these present and former Lowell School students whose work will appear in the next issue of Signatures. They've all studied with MWC resident writer Robert Lee.
Madison Savage "This Poem"
Phoenix Dylan Price "Watch and be Watched"
Emily Engstrom "Silent Tears"
Rachel Martens "Dreams"
Payton Cox "Grandma's Flowers"
And to Heidi Arney and Tanner Zimmerman from Hawthorne School, who are featured poets in the Montana 2009 Energy Conservation Calendar, published by the Montana Department of Health and Human Services. Heidi and Tanner are students of MWC resident writer Deborah Slicer.
Check our website soon for an updated list of newly-published MWC student poets.
... and THANKS!
to a new supporter -- The Gallagher Foundation
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P.O. Box 9237
Missoula, MT 59807
(406) 549-3348
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