3rd Eye News

Teen Wins National Award for Poetry

For Kym Reinstadler's article about Patricia, which appeared in The Grand Rapids Press on May 8, 2008, check out the following web address:

Excerpt from Patricia’s Diary on the Day She Read at the Library of Congress

Day 3

I HAD TO GET UP SUPERHERO EARLY
but it was worth it 'cause the reading at the Library
of Congress was today. Robert Hass and Pamela Michaels

13-year-old Through the 3rd Eye Board Member Wins Top Prize in National Contest

Through the 3rd Eye Editor Kara Madden wrote the following article about Patricia after she won the Grand Prize in the national River of Words Contest in 2008.

KDL's Poetry Contest Produces Wise Words

The winners of Kent District Library’s 6th annual poetry contest, Word Wise, are writers of extreme talent.

Regarding Style: Andrew De Haan Interviews Phil Hey

Some poets love to utilize sound devices such as alliteration and rhyme, while others choose to focus on accurately depicting an image.

Learning from Hope: A Profile of Phil Hey

The quote inside the cover of Phil Hey’s seventh book, How It Seems To Me, was recorded thousands of years ago by Plato, but it makes just as much sense today as you continue to read throug

Hannah Fleming: A Stop At The American Gothic House.

It seems that at the very root of Hannah Fleming, there is a great deal of compassion and love, and it shows in her poetry.

An Interview with Rachel McGuinness, Winner of the Student Division of the 2009 Kent County Poetry Contest

1) You have quite a record of success in recent poetry contests, Rachel.

An Interview with Jackie Bartley

1. I recently finished reading your book, Ordinary Time, and I enjoyed it immensely. Your poems are so diverse in subject matter; they constantly keep the reader on her toes!

A Look at Holland Poet Jackie Bartley and Her Book Ordinary Time

Jackie Bartley’s smooth style of writing illuminated with surprising metaphors and heartfelt emotions is not the kind of writing one would expect from a woman with Bachelor Degrees in biology and me

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