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“The Ageless Appeal of Beverly Cleary” — NYT profile

“The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.” — Emily Dickinson

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.” — John Ashbery

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” — Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement… says heaven and earth in one word… speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.”

— Christopher Fry

2011 Banned Books Week “Read-Out” Grant Application

Banned Books Week 2011 will take place from Sept. 24-Oct. 1.

The Freedom to Read Foundation is once again providing grants through its Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund to support “Read-Outs” celebrating Banned Books Week 2011! This year, the Krug Fund will provide FOUR grants of either $2,500 or $1,000 to libraries, non-profits, community groups or other organizations who plan to celebrate Banned Books Week with a Read-Out! or similar public activity.

– Freedom to Read Foundation News; Vol. 35, No.4—Vol. 36, No. 1 March 2011.

Grant Application Deadline: May 13, 2011

Learn more about this grant opportunity.

If you qualify, apply for this grant.

“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?” — Russell Hoban

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” — Lord Byron

“Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.” — Plato