Experience the Power of Poetry
The 2020 Poetry Out Loud Florida Finals were held at the University Student Center (USC) on the campus of USF St. Petersburg. Watch this video to see the student recitations.
2020 High School Poetry Contest Top Ten
2020 Poetry Out Loud
St. Petersburg, Florida (March 3, 2020)–Zhaedyn Hodge Sigars, a Senior at Blake High School in Tampa, successfully defended his title as State Champion for Florida’s Poetry Out Loud competition. Mr. Sigars will represent Florida in the 2020 national competition on April 27, 2020.
Here’s a look back at his peripatetic 2019 summer reading
The Cave and the Light: Plato versus Aristotle and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization (2013), by Arthur Herman. How the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world laid the foundations of Western culture. Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age, by Christian Meier Essential reference for The Cave and the Light. The Mueller Report (2019) Preparation for the special counsel’s testimony. Pete Buttigieg: An
What We’re Reading, Spring 2019
In this issue, Jill Rourke, head librarian at the Apalachicola Margaret Key Library, recommends two favorites. “Historical novels are a delicious blend of history and the imagination, peeling back time and space and often — through great characters — letting us view history through a slightly different lens,” she writes. “The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead blew my socks off! Whitehead envisions the Underground Railroad as an actual working railway
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