|
Dear Friends,
Years ago in Mexico a 7-year-old named Jesus Carlos Soto Morfín wrote:
THE POET PENCIL
Once upon a time a pencil wanted to write poetry but it didn't have a point. One day a boy put it into the sharpener and in place of a poem, a river appeared.
* * * * *
Lovely river twining through the heart of our city, river of voices, surprising springs of history and hope, ways to shape what we see, to connect and grow. Our river walk is growing as we speak. How can we know what Jesus Carlos knew? How may we encourage the flow?
Gemini Ink, a block from the rivery heart, supports the voices of so many people of all ages, experienced and always just beginning. Please attend the wonderful readings, take the splendid classes, give yourselves the gifts of a larger literary life. And right now, please cast your bucket into the stream, filled with a monetary gift of support. It's startling how many people in our great community say they'd like to strengthen their own powers of reading, interpreting, writing, listening. Gemini Ink says, Well then, do! Gemini Ink needs YOU.
Sincerely,
Naomi Shihab Nye
Award-winning and world-traveling San Antonio poet
HERE'S A
CHALLENGE!
You can show your support by
joining Gemini Ink's end-of-year giving campaign. In the spirit of the season,
Gemini Ink's board of directors has made a challenge to all of you activists for
reading and writing. If you collectively give $5,000 between now and the end of
the year, they will match it--for a total of $10,000! Support reading and
writing for all!
|
|
|
Here's what you need to know:
|
|
|
Every year, your
donations to Gemini Ink support community literary arts programs like Writers in
Communities, The Autograph Series, Dramatic Readers Theater and University
Without Walls. And every year, these programs help more than 5,000 San Antonians
find the magic in books and discover themselves through the power of their own
words. Our work builds the critical thinking, reading, writing, and verbal
skills essential to a healthy and economically thriving populace.
|
|
Here's where your money goes:
|
|
$25 pays for ...
one
hour of creative writing tutelage for an incarcerated teen, a homeless woman, a
grade-school child, or any of our Writers In Communities students - many of whom
have their first positive experience with language in one of our classes and all
of whom attend our workshops free of charge
$50 pays for ...
50 pocket-sized notebooks for our WIC students to
maintain a relationship with their own words long after their workshops are over
$75 pays for ...
an actor's performance in one of our Dramatic
Readers Theater productions
$100 pays for ...
ten 8 1/2 by 11 anthologies of poems and
stories fro
|
And, let's not forget ...
|
|
You are helping Gemini Ink continue to nurture writers and readers and
build a community through literature and the related arts.
 W |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
