Oak Grove’s top poetry reciters

Oak Grove's top poetry reciters

Congratulations to the Oak Grove Grade-Level Poetry Recitation Winners. These students won at their respective grade levels by memorizing lengthy poems and reciting for the school. Oak Grove’s winners will continue to the county-level to recite with the other school winners across Fayette County. In the front row, from left, are Tyndall Phillips (KDG), Ashley Sikes (1st grade), and Leo Maneein ...

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Poetry Reading event set for Dec. 9

â€" The Chickasha Area Arts Council (CAAC) is pleased to invite the community to enjoy an evening of Poetry Reading as presented by Dr. Benjamin Myers, Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, OK.

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Silenced in China, a Translator Brings Poetry of Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo to U.S.

On Friday, Liu Xiaobo will formally receive the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. But Mr. Liu will not be attending the event. He was arrested in June of 2009 and remains in prison in China under the charge of "inciting subversion of state power." Liu is a writer, literary critic and activist who has repeatedly been arrested and imprisoned for his calls for a more open and ...

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