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Thursday, February 27,2003
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Gardner-Webb reads a million
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Photo by Christina O Grady
Members of Donna Simmon’s Children’s Literature class participate in Cleveland Community College and
The Shelby Star’s "Cleveland Reads a Million ” literacy program.
Children’s Lit. class
joins literacy project
Megan Berry
Pilot staff
The Gardner-Webb Children’s
Literature class recently joined a literacy
promotion project sponsored by Cleveland
County Community College and The
Shelby Star
The goal of the year-long program,
called Cleveland Reads a Million, is for
Cleveland County to read a million books
in one year’s time. The community counts
began Oct. 26, 2002 and will run through
this year.
GWU Children’s Literature professor,
Donna Simmons, heard about the program
from members of the community.
“I thought it would be fun to have my
classes involved in this reading program,”
said Simmons. “It's our way of supporting
literacy and the community at the same
time.”
The class responded positively.
Simmons’ students have the opportunity to
participate individually, in addition to their
class participating.
Last Thursday Simmons turned in a
class total of 191 books that have been read
this semester. The minimum class require
ment for the semestQr is for each student to
read 35 books. Simmons plans to continue
turning in totals near the end of each month
until the semester ends.
Simmons and her husband are working
together to read as many books as they can
“I thought it would be fun
to have my classes involved
in this reading
program. It^s our way of
supporting literacy and the
community at the same
time. ”
— Donna Simmons
to support the schools, libraries, The Star
and community of Cleveland County.
The Star is looking for partnerships
within the community, such as book clubs,
churches, senior centers, families, individ
uals and businesses who will actively take
part in reading, recording and encouraging
others to join the cause.
To become a part of Cleveland Reads a
Million, start with reading books and
encouraging others to do the same. Groups
can start collecting totals by the use of
sign-up boards, posters and drop boxes.
Those wishing to participate may sub
mit monthly totals either online at
www.shelbystar.com or by mail to RO.
Box 48, Shelby, N.C. 28151. For more
information about the program contact
Sunny Roe at 704-484-7000 or
sunny_roe@link.fTeedom.com.
Published poet
Professor up for
poetry award
Laurie Pinkert
Pilot staff
Tony Morris, of the English
department, has been nominated
for the Pushcart
Prize.
This yearly
award highlights
the new voices
in poetry by
evaluating
works that have
been published
during the previ
ous year by a Morris
small press in the United States.
“Poetry, for me, is a way of
speaking about our life experi
ences in a highly condensed and
imagistic way,” Morris said.
. Morris was notified in January
of his nomination. Winners of the
Pushcart Prize will be announced
this summer.
Each contestant in the contest
submits three poems, one of which
will may be nominated for the
award. The poems must have an
universal theme.
“Few things are worth writing
about; love, birth, death and sex,”
Morris said. “Those are the things
that connect and contact between
people.”
Morris, who came to Gardner-
Webb in the fall of 2002, is hope
ful that he will be nominated for
this award again next year. Six dif
ferent journals will be publishing
his poetry in the spring and fall of
this year. The winners of the
Pushcart Prize will be published in
a journal this fall.
Morris graduated from Florida
State University with a Ph.D. last
spring. He is now teaching
Composition 101 and 102 and
Early American Literature Survey.
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