Fine Lines announces its first-ever writing contest! For more information, download the pdf file and look for contest highlights in the current 2009 summer issue. Looking to pay via PayPal? Click on the button below. (more…)
Archive for July, 2009
55 Word Contest
Tuesday, July 14th, 20092008 Camp photos are up!
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
We just posted photographs from last year’s summer writing camp on our Flickr feed. See the whole slideshow!
The Wound
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009(Mary Davey Wilson teaches humanities classes at Omaha North High School.)
I’ve come to realize
that trauma changes all. (more…)
To A Beginning Poet
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009(Dr. Don Welch is a retired English professor from the University of Nebraska at Kearney , NE. )
To play a small candle
on a moonless night,
a voice of light
among the politics of black; (more…)
Mommy’s Little Girl
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009(Liz Sharpe wrote this poem in the eighth grade at Beveridge Magnet School , Omaha , NE. )
I’ll always be her little girl,
giggling in her lap,
protesting a nap . . . (more…)
The Face Dancer
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009(Walker Martin)
I’ve wandered roads to every land
I’ve worn a face of doubt
it weighs like sin,
it holds me in,
I search for some way out (more…)
Poetry Is…
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009(Walker Martin teaches eighth grade English at McMillan Middle School in Omaha .)
. . . misunderstood! Well, perhaps that is as it should be. One of the more likely complaints or misconceptions surrounds works of modern poetry. (more…)
Beginnings (Various Poems)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Fine Lines devotes this section to young writers in kindergarten through grade six. We hope parents and teachers will encourage their children and students who are just “beginning” to understand the joy that comes from the written word to submit their best work and share it with our readers of all ages.
Fine Lines is entering its eighteenth consecutive year of providing a place
where creative writers can share their written ideas with others. The
journal, therefore, is dedicated to the writing development of all its
members. What started out as a classroom project is now a fifty-state
network of authors who love the written word and have the support of a
501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
