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Where Are We Now: Amy Williams1 comment

Alex Gilbert wrote 6 days ago: Amy Williams (center) with colleagues DeAnna Murrell and Pansy Gee at summer writing camp. Amy Willi … more →

Tags: Where are we now?, summer writing camp

The Eagle Has Landed

Robin Reagler wrote 1 week ago: Today is the final day of the Summer Creative Writing Workshops in Houston. Students are performing … more →

Become a Member at the Menil

Robin Reagler wrote 1 week ago: If you visit The Menil Collection any time, now through Sunday, you will get 20% off the cost of any … more →

Tags: houston, event, Art, Menil Collection

WITS Students Featured in the Houston Chronicle

Alex Gilbert wrote 2 weeks ago: Students attending the Summer Creative Writing Workshops recently visited The Menil Collection for … more →

Tags: houston, event, Art, Education, Menil Collection, rice writing camp, summer creative writing workshops, wits camp, writing camp

Listen1 comment

Robin Reagler wrote 2 weeks ago: I hear the air conditioner. It flows like the wind.  It calms me to sleep.  When it stops I wake up. … more →

Tags: Animal, Memory, Poetry, dog poem, listening poem

Tonight at The Menil Collection, WITS Students will Read Original Poetry Inspired by Art

Alex Gilbert wrote 2 weeks ago: This evening in The Menil Collection (1515 Sul Ross, 77006), Writers in the Schools (WITS)  and The … more →

Tags: Art, contest, event, houston, Poetry, writing, ekphrasis, poems about paintings, Texas

Ekphrasis: Poems About Paintings

Alex Gilbert wrote 3 weeks ago: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 7:00 PM in The Menil Collection Foyer, Writers in the Schools (WITS) and T … more →

Tags: Creativity, Poetry

Art Revs Up the Writing Process

Robin Reagler wrote 3 weeks ago: The three-week summer creative writing program began Monday, June 8, and all three campuses seem to … more →

Tags: houston, event, Art, Inspiration, Creativity, Travel

You Are Beautiful Too: Katherine Center Reads on Thursday1 comment

Robin Reagler wrote 3 weeks ago: Thursday evening the Houston Public Library presents “An Evening with Katherine Center” … more →

Tags: houston, Fiction, event, writer, Books, Where are we now?

Safe + Super Sites for Kids

Robin Reagler wrote 3 weeks ago: All My Faves has added a Kids section to their “best of the web” site. There’s ev … more →

Tags: Books, Parenting, Student

Thunder is my Mother

Robin Reagler wrote 1 month ago: I say feed me. Thunder strikes the apple tree and hundreds fall into my mouth. I say comfort me. Thu … more →

Tags: Nature, Poetry

Essay Contest: Lincoln and Obama

Robin Reagler wrote 1 month ago: Platt Family Scholarship Prize Essay Contest 1st Prize $1000 | 2nd Prize $500 | 3rd Prize $250 The … more →

Tags: Essay, contest, student writing contest, Barack Obama, history essay, Abraham Lincoln, platt family scholarship, scholarship essay

Peace Poetry Awards - No Fee for Students

Robin Reagler wrote 1 month ago: 2009 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards is an annual series of awards to encourage poets to e … more →

Tags: contest, Poetry, student writing contest, writing

Darkness to Light1 comment

Robin Reagler wrote 1 month ago: It’s dark inside, I hate everything. My darkness is taking over me. I stay in the dark, afraid of t … more →

Tags: Poetry, Memory, Self Portrait, Student

Top Posts for May 2009

Robin Reagler wrote 1 month ago: Skateboarding Ode to Poetry The Color Pink by Sarah Write a Poem for Barack Obama Who I Am Ode to … more →

Tags: Poetry, Ode, Student

Where Are We Now: Tria Wood

Alex Gilbert wrote 1 month ago: Tria Wood discusses a poem with a WITS 4th grade student. Tria Wood has worked with WITS as a writer … more →

Tags: Creativity, Teaching, Where are we now?, writer, Jane Creighton, tria wood

WITS Class Hears Back from President Obama

Kristina McDonald wrote 1 month ago: As part of the Poems for Obama Project, the WITS 4th grade classes at Burbank Elementary  sent poem … more →

Tags: event, houston, Poetry, Student, writing, Barack Obama, letters to Obama, political poem, President Obama

Meet Carol Herron, Arts in Medicine Innovator

marcia68 wrote 1 month ago: Carol Herron is one of many “invisible” heroes who collaborate with WITS.  Writers Amy Storrow, Darb … more →

Tags: houston, Illness, Art, Creativity, Teaching

My Life

Kristina McDonald wrote 1 month ago: My life is the sunny park smelling like golden sunflowers. I feel like I’m swinging on the swing. Th … more →

Tags: Poetry, Student, Nature, life poem, sunflowers


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