To commemorate National Poetry Month and to celebrate the culture of literacy on campus, several faculty members, staff members, and students agreed to share their favorite poem during the 2009 Celebration of Poetry at WKCTC April 15, 2009.  Participants were:

Kim Russell—Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt

Mellisa Duncan—“Sick” by Shel Silverstein

Tara Marcum—“Ode to the Artichoke” by Pablo Neruda

David Nickell—“The Best of All Songs” and “Elegy” by Wendell Berry

Alvin Moore—“Such Love…”

Connie Heflin—“Best Friend” by Helen Reddy and “The End of the End” by
                                 Paul McCartney

Stacey Nickell—“Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath and “In the Reading Room” by David Ferry

Constance Frank—“Lineage” by Margaret Walker and “My Grandmother
                                       Washes Her Feet” by Fred Chappell

Legatha Spelbring—“On the First Night” by Erica Jong

Tom Butler—“The Love Chapter” (1st Corinthians, 13:1—13)

Angel Rhodes—“Annabelle Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe

Latasha Williamson—“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou

Ken Bradshaw—“I Don’t Suppose You’ve Seen” by Ruth Harrington

Dr. Tena Payne—“On Death” by Kahil Gibran

Christina “Sassy” Christopher—“A Soldier Died Today” (author unknown)

Jane Harmon—“etc.” by E.E. Cummings

Paul Wood—“My Poems Been Runnin’ They Mouths Again” by Frank X.
                            Walker

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