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diversions
Poetry
in L.B.C.
By Christine Shin
On-line Forty-Niner
It's National Poetry
Month and Long Beach joins in the celebration of the craft
with the Third Annual Long Beach Poetry Festival. Cal State
Long Beach professor Elliott Fried and columnist Tom Hennessy
founded the festival after deciding "that what Long Beach
needed was not an NFL franchise, a Queensway Bay shopping
mall or ... whompin' surf. It needed poetry," Hennessy wrote
in his Press Telegram column about the poetry week.
The festival continues
through Saturday with the following free events:
Wednesday, April
17: Barnes & Noble in the Long Beach Towne Center
will present poetry for their young Storytime audience, 4
p.m.
African-American
Poetry Night presented by the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, Roscoe's House of Chicken and
Waffles, 730 E. Broadway, 6:30 p.m. Langston Hughes will be
remembered as April marks the 100th anniversary of the late
poet's death.
Thursday, April
18: High School Poetry Slam, Barnes & Noble, Marina
Pacifica, 7 p.m. Students from Poly, Jordan and Millikan will
compete in a spirited poetic competition.
Friday, April
19: Second Community Poetry Night, Unitarian Church, 5450
Atherton, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April
20: Patriotic Poetry Day, Villages at Cabrillo, 2001 River
Ave, 2 p.m. This is the premier event of the festival.
Festival sponsors
include Barnes & Noble, CSULB and its English department,
Press Telegram, JetBlue Airways and the Public Corporation
for the Arts.
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