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Letter from LBCC's poet laureate

The Commuter

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Dear Students and Staff:

It is with great honor and excitement that I endeavor on this new adventure of being LBCC’s second Poet Laureate. I expect only great things to come from it and from all of you as you continue to inspire poems and join with me in seeing poems come to life. Poetry and I go way back. Long before I knew its name I felt it in things and people around me, I experienced poetry in beauty.

I have seen intense beauty at LBCC. I see it every day in faces and friends and the vast landscaped nature that surrounds the premises. It is my goal to evoke that beauty in such a way that we see it, not just on paper in books that remain on shelves for far too long or on displays in the library or in a literature class; but it is my hope that we see poetry put to action, that you will begin to catch my vision and see that poetry is felt in sadness and happiness, in love and hate, in future dreams and present engagements. Poetry is life.

One of my goals for this year is to bring poetry to you. I am planning on having a poem of the week that will hopefully land in each and every one of your hands. I will set the poem of the week in the Commons, hallways, potentially classrooms, the Learning Center, and hopefully various other places. I want words of inspiration to be on every corner of campus, words of encouragement from many great people that will bring a smile to your face. Another great aspect of poetry is that, although poets live and die, their words never do, and those great words have a chance to dwell in your daily thoughts and actions.

There are many other ideas I’m working on, such as starting a computer forum where all of you can share poems with each other, having a few events on campus, and starting a poetry tree that will be on display in the library for Poetry Month. We’ll see what other ideas will be brought to mind and action!

If you have any ideas that you would love to see happen concerning poetry or would like to help be involved with events, please contact me at earlsa@ml.linnbenton.edu. You can also see your own poems in the Commuter by e-mailing your poems to Robin Havenick at Robin.Havenick@linnbenton.edu.

I look forward to a great year with numerous blossomed poems!

Your Poet Laureate,

Amy Earls

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