May 2012
46 posts
“Be daring, take on anything. Don’t labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.”
—
Joyce Carol Oates (1956 Scholastic Award winner)
Here’s her Award-winning work from when she was 17: A Dawn You’ll Never See
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
Before the week ends, we just wanted to say thank you to all the teachers out there. We truly appreciate everything you do to inspire student creativity and innovation!
Announcing the 2012 Scholastic Awards Novel Winners!
The 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards novel winners list can be found here: http://www.artandwriting.org/Awards/NationalWinners_Novel. Good luck!
“Don’t pay attention to what they write about you, just measure it in inches.”
—Andy Warhol (Scholastic Awards alum)
“I still read about myself and say, who is this person? You can take the boy out of National City, but you can’t take National City out of the boy.”
—1949 Scholastic Award winner John Baldessari in an interview with KPBS
April 2012
34 posts
“Beneath a tattoo of stars the gate open, so silent so like a tomb.
This is the city you most loved, an empty stairwell
where the next rain lifts invisibly from the Seine.
With solitude, your coat open, you walk
steadily as if the railings were there and your hands weren’t passing
through them.” —Carolyn Forche, Elegy (via lydianea)
This is the city you most loved, an empty stairwell
where the next rain lifts invisibly from the Seine.
With solitude, your coat open, you walk
steadily as if the railings were there and your hands weren’t passing
through them.” —Carolyn Forche, Elegy (via lydianea)
“Poetry is an art of words but also the energy that moves through them—what comes from spirit or noumena, the impulse, the spark, and this is what makes the poem unparaphrasable.”
—1967 Scholastic Awards alum Carolyn Forché, from “Reading the Living Archives: The Witness of Literary Art” (Poetry magazine, May 2011)
