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Workshops | The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog
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The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog. Community creativity from Whatcom County, Washington…and beyond. With the generous participation of outstanding poet/instructors, the Sue Boynton Poetry Contest offers a number of workshops each fall and winter. Details are posted on this page as soon as workshop information is available. Workshops will be held at Honey Moon Mead and Cider. Paid by check or cash at the workshop. Register by sending an email to boyntonpoetrycontest@hotmail.com. Most people...
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FAQs | The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog
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The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog. Community creativity from Whatcom County, Washington…and beyond. When is the contest? In general, submissions are accepted for a number of weeks in March, the judging is completed and winners are notified in April and the public awards ceremony is in May of each year. Specific dates are posted as soon as they are available (see the 2016 Contest. Page) The submission dates are inflexible and. Who can submit a poem to the contest? The contest is open. Of th...
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Books! | The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog
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The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog. Community creativity from Whatcom County, Washington…and beyond. Anthology of winning poems, 2011-2015. Special thanks to WECU. For underwriting the first print run. POETRY WALK: Sue C. Boynton Contest, The Second Five Years. 125 poems by 108 Whatcom County poets (some represented multiple times). A celebratory reading of selected works from the collection will be held at Village Books on Thursday, September 17, 2015. Anthology of winning poems, 2006-2010.
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Sue C. Boynton | The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog
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The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog. Community creativity from Whatcom County, Washington…and beyond. Sue C Boynton’s last public reading was in July 1976 at age 95 when she read a message from President Ford along with one of her poems for the Bicentennial program in the old City Hall. Sue Boynton died in 1981. The story of her life is told in. The Sue Boynton Story. By Dorothy Koert, published in 1982 by the Whatcom County Historical Society. An Ode to Me. Posted September 19, 2010). Bison...
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Poetry Walk | The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog
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The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog. Community creativity from Whatcom County, Washington…and beyond. There are poetry walks and there are poetry walks. Some poetry walks are events people walking from place to place, with readings along the way to celebrate Poetry Month (April) or the birthday of a poet. Some of these have become long-running institutions ( Petaluma, California. And the Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge. For example); some are one-time events ( Gale School, Chicago.
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on poetry | The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog
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The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog. Community creativity from Whatcom County, Washington…and beyond. August 15, 2015. 8220;To look into a word as through a window”. B August 15, 1954). Quote from “ Japanese Characters. Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window). Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). Clover, A L...
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more poetry on film | The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog
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The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog. Community creativity from Whatcom County, Washington…and beyond. More poetry on film. August 14, 2015. As long as we’re on the subject of poetry on film. Here’s more (times two). In 2015, Liverpool-based Hurricane Films. Began production on a feature film called. Directed by Terence Davies. The film stars Cynthia Nixon. Jennifer Ehle and Keith Carradine are also in the cast) and it will be completed in 2016. But, “While working on the set of. Fill in your...
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Winners | The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog
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The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog. Community creativity from Whatcom County, Washington…and beyond. Scroll down to see the Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest winning poets and poems from each contest year, 2006-2016; click on the poem name to read the poem and see the illustrated placard. Lake of the Isles. Architecture Stolen from Animals. I am not a puddle. Cheryl A. Fear. Living on the mountain. When Birds Could Talk. At Dawn I Stare Down a Raccoon from my Back Porch. A Star Vanishing Away.
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poetry on film | The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog
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The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog. Community creativity from Whatcom County, Washington…and beyond. August 13, 2015. Here’s a documentary film to put on your watch-for list:. Poetry is an Island. Directed by Ida Does. The film is an intimate portrait of Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott. More on the Poetry is an Island website. You can read a number of Walcott’s poems on the Academy of American Poets website. And an interview with Derek Walcott by Edward Hirsch in the. Address never m...
