In its 4-year existence, the Youth Peace-Poem Competition hosted by IPPWA and executed by the Live Poets' Guild has seen wondrous change and growth in the poems our kids submit and in their engagement with verse and music.
In 2011, PR kids contributed 3,385 lines of poetry to the International Peace Poem, more than ever before. Almost 450 poems were submitted and judged by a panel of a dozen judges. Shari Ulrich, of UHF and Pied Pumkin fame, led the Poem-to-Song workshop in its third year and produced some memorable songs which we will hear on PR occasions and abroad for years. (www.shariulrich.com) Read more »
by E. van Loon, Editor
R U Speshul, Ed? has gone into hiding to transform itself into a book. Welcome to a new column by the CHPPPR (Community Heritage Publishing Project Powell River) putting a spotlight on local authors and books. CHPPPR is a community project dedicated to local writing, editing, publishing and book manufacture—in ways far greener than the publishing world of the past. Powtwon, as some call our community, can be Booktown, a center for communities near and far to find books and produce their own through our growing facilities and expertise. CHPPPR aims not only to grow a new sustainable industry for Powell River but within five years to hear it said far and wide that Powtown IS Booktown! Read more »
This, the tale of a young girl’s struggle to create meaning, is not a young girl’s book. It is a book for adults, a cautionary story about the chaos we weave and for which we must ultimately bear responsibility.
Its heroine, Pira, is the not-so-quiet centre at the book’s heart. What to say about Pira? In describing her, I’m driven to cliché: a tough shell guarding a tender, hidden heart—a heart that can be, and is, wounded. But Pira herself is no cliché. She is, in the author’s own words, “Ix, the jaguar girl!”
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