Poetry Reading Kicks Off County-Wide Contest
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- Published on Saturday, 14 February 2009 23:10
Some read poems they wrote themselves. Others poems they liked. They included students, faculty, residents and the president of AMU. But they all loved poetry, and came to The Bean Friday night to help kick off a Collier County-wide poetry contest to be held as part of of the Festival of the Arts.
About 40 students and residents attended.
Left, Daniel Dix reads while his wife, Monica, listens and captures the image. Monica read herself later in the evening.
Right, Patricia Sette, Editor of The Ave Herald and a member of Friends of the Arts, reads poems by Richard Wilbur.
Left, author Michael Novak reads from Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Right, AMU Junior Mary Peterson, who read one of her own works.
Left, AMU President Nick Healy, reading Robert Service.
Right, resident Mary Claire Dant, a member of the Friends of the Arts, reads from Shel Silverstein. His works were also read by Deacon Forrest Wallace and AMU director of student success Richard Dittus.