We have a poet and now you know it
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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LBCC has chosen their second poet laureate.
The new poet laureate is Amy Earls, an avid poet and member of the poetry club. She is an English major who has been attending LBCC for four years. She has already earned one degree from the college.
Last year, LBCC picked their first poet laureate, Kaedence Eaton. The position was created after Rita Cavin, LBCC’s president, thought of the position in fall of 2008. In the spring of last year, the school started searching for a new poet laureate for the 2009 – 2010 school year.
At first, Earls was not planning on applying, but she was encouraged to by Robin Havenick, instructor and poetry club advisor at LBCC.
“Just the ideas of what can happen, and what I can share concerning poetry on campus, made me really enthusiastic to know I can make a difference in
that area,” Earls said.
Earls has been writing poetry since she was very young.
“I had a desire not to just read other people’s works, but to create my own expression of how I saw everything and what I thought about things.” She feels poetry was something that just came natural to her.
Havenick was delighted by how many people applied for the position. She believes this indicates a growing awareness and interest in poetry at the college. She added that many of the applicants were amazing individuals, but felt Earl’s qualities stood out the most.
“Amy distinguished herself because of her passion, her vision and the clarity of how she saw poetry being able to be a force in making poetry alive in other people’s lives in our community. When she’s talking about poetry, you feel her passion in the room,” Havenick said.
She also said that Earls is a really remarkable poet, who is very involved in the poetry club and other poetry activities.
Earls plans to start a “poem of the week.” These will have to do with both the time of year and what is happening around campus. She said these will be “inspiring words from people of the past that I think will really help students stay strong.” She plans to have handouts of these and to have them posted different places at school.
So keep your eyes peeled around campus for new activities involving poetry.
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