Category: Poetry

Upcoming Launches for Jack Layton: Art in Action, edited by Penn Kemp
Read Jack Layton: Art in Action (an interview with editor – Penn Kemp)

Come to one Launch, come to all … and buy the book for friends!
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I watched the the TV movie about Jack Layton. Admired him and although sad to see him dying and singing his last song….but what an uplift experience, even witness on the TV…It just makes me revalue our lives, no matter short or long, the most important is with passion and live in each moment.

(April 15, 2013)

Look, the night puts on her glimmering necklace!
I listen, searching the empty sky for your young voice.

Everything seems falling.
From the heaven, you watch the lit-up city below—
Night folds another broken heart;
silent, even our teardrops…

I want to light another candle,
pray for you to sleep
and wake up with the sunrise.

I want our joyful teardrops
to find you a new day—
Alive again and dressed for school, for work,
to run, to cheer…
the finish line, a happy journey.

Be alive, be home!
Simple like that, how grateful!

Could a day become a fresh page?
Could we erase the sadness and rewrite the end?
Could we all wake with the sunrise
but not the nightmare

so we could listen—
the night is beautiful

beautiful…

POET VISITS DURING NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

On April 15, award winning poet Anna Yin visited the school library as part of National Poetry Month celebrations. Anna read some of her haiku and concrete poems which were accompanied by the photographs that inspired them. Her multimedia presentation gave students the story behind the poems and provided insight into the writing process.

On a personal note, Anna shared her poet journey with the grade ten English and grade twelve Writer’s Craft students. Anna did not give up on her writing despite many challenges, and told the audience that her love of poetry has helped her experience more joy from life and made her appreciate small details. Thank you, Anna, for making poetry come alive at Libermann!

(Thanks Caroline to invite me and arrange this event!  Thanks students and teachers to have me there and discuss about my poems  -Anna Yin)