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Poetry Out Loud: On The Road Again
Hey Purple Posse! As promised I’m keaping you in the loop as I travel to San Fransisco for the California State Poetry Out Loud competition. This week has been a mad dash of poaching, prepping, and practicing for this competition. But hey we’re finally hitting the road. We’ve got our yummy travel snacks, Thermost of…
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Poetry Out Loud: Where Going To State
Hey Purple Posse! Okay Okay, let’s talk about the elephant in the room. I haven’t posted anything in a while, okay a long while. But fear not loyal reader this time has not been completely wasted. I have had a couple of schemes brewing and I actually have some pretty exciting news. A few months…
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My First Poetry Reading!
No. By Lili Lang No. No! No? Anger, Demand, questioning Flimsy perhaps. Versatile likely. Only depends on the tone. No My first word, the word my toddler tongue screamed to get her way Didn’t work then either No A notion that grew beside me. Gaining limbs and filling out Now so complex my tongue can…
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Youth Poet Laureate Finalist
Earlier this year, I applied to the Ventura County Arts Council to become the next Ventura County Youth Poet Laureate. A youth poet laureate is a young writer who works to make art and poetry more accessible for their community through workshops and volunteer projects that they organize and lead. There have been several previous…
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The Noises Voices and Eyes
This weeks i’ve been chatting with an old friend and fellow writer, Rachel Kaltenbach. Rachel is probably the only other person as obsessed with writing as me. Back in elementary school we even wrote a small children’s book together. She drew the illustrations and I did the writing. We were named our selves World of…
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By Lili Lang
Category: Poetry
Posts featuring Lili Lang and guest writers poems