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Morning Cram

9:05 am

Fri April 12, 2013

The Morning Cram [sweet words, sweet blooms edition]

By Whitney Jones

From NPR: oh cherry blossom
we celebrate thee with rows
of lovely haiku

Education

5:37 pm

Mon April 8, 2013

Teaching Poetry to Kids and Recording for Radio

By Kate Lochte

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Murray State’s Teacher Quality Institute’s Constance Alexander brings poetry to the studio on Sounds Good today. She’s produced Poetry Minutes for WKMS over the past several years. In the conversation, she reads some of the poems written by area school kids for the project, and talks about teaching poetry to kids, how to interpret something like a photo or painting using carefully constructed words.

Click here to listen to this year's Poetry Minutes.

Bonus: Here's last year's Poetry Minutes!

Poetry Minutes

10:54 am

Mon April 1, 2013

Poetry Minutes 2013: Picturing America

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"The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere," Grant Wood

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Hannah Greenlee and Emma Greenlee, Homespun Fabric Scraps

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"The Boating Party," Mary Cassatt

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Brooklyn Bridge, Walker Evans

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"Portrait of a Boy," John Singer Sargent

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Cover Illustration for The Last of the Mohicans, N.C. Wyeth

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"Ladder for Booker T. Washington," Martin Puryear

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"The Veteran in a New Field," Winslow Homer

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"The Sources of Country Music," Thomas Hart Benton

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Freedom of Speech, The Saturday Evening Post, by Norman Rockwell

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"American Flamingo," John James Audubon

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"The County Election," George Caleb Bingham

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"Migrant Mother," Dorothea Lange

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"Washington Crossing the Delaware," Emanuel Leutze

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Poettery and Baskets by The Anasazi, c. 1100 to c. 1960

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Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965, James Karales

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The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole

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The Peacock Room: Harmony in Blue and Gold, James McNeill Whistler

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"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper

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"Sans Arc Lakota" Ledger Book, Black Hawk

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"American Landscape, 1930," Charles Sheeler

By Matt Markgraf and Constance Alexander

Hear Poetry Minutes every weekday in April at 7:19 AM, 11:40 AM, and 4:19 PM

In honor of National Poetry Month, WKMS and Murray State University's Teacher Quality Institute have teamed up again for a special project during April, bringing short poems by students in western Kentucky public schools, that air at 7:19 a.m., 11:40 a.m. and 4:19 p.m. weekdays through Tuesday, April 30.

Poems About Picturing America, influenced by William Carlos Williams

Education

2:57 pm

Mon March 11, 2013

Lone Oak High School Senior Competes in Poetry Out Loud Championship

By Kate Lochte

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Jazmyne Lilly, Senior from Lone Oak High School, competes in the state Poetry Out Loud Championship in Frankfort Tuesday, March 12. She is one of three seniors from our region among seventeen finalists for the opportunity to represent the Commonwealth in national competition. She previews her recitation of a Carl Sandburg poem for us.

Culture

2:51 pm

Wed February 27, 2013

Hopkinsville Native Wins ALA Award

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By The Associated Press

The Black Caucus of the American Library Association has given its 2013 Best Poetry Award to Hopkinsville native and author bell hooks for her book "Appalachian Elegy."

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