CynthiaParkhill

Here is a sampling of books from SRCSA library: Picture books of poetry as well as novels-in-verse, to commemorate National Poetry Month. ...

This collage, featuring print-outs from the cover-art for various books of poetry, is part of a display honoring National Poetry Month i...

Here’s something that our middle-school students might be interested in: a Teen Poetry Slam at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 13, at the Rohn...

Here’s a potentially exciting development in the realm of poetry in Sonoma County classrooms: California Poets in the Schools , a statewi...

From 2006: Sandra Wade (center) inaugurated as Lake County Poet Laureate Sandra Wade, a former Poet Laureate of Lake County, Calif., di...

Source of image: Ashland Teen Library on Facebook I’m looking forward to another “Teen Crafternoon” activity, noon to 2:30 p.m. Satur...

Bellview Elementary School library ‘Top 10,’ April 26, 2014 from Cynthia M. Parkhill Graphic storytelling dominated the Bellview E...

Last order of business before leaving work today in Bellview Elementary School library, was the posting of this sign in preparation for “...

April is National Poetry Month and in the Bellview Library, I created a posterboard display to commemorate the occasion. A collage of cut...

Today is Read Across America Day, it’s true, the day of all days to celebrate You-Know-Who. No, not that one; Lord Voldemort Is not th...

“Oregon Reads 2014 is for children and teens too!” On the Southern Oregon Education Service District librarians’ listserv, Library Materials...

“I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) From “He Wishes For the Cl...

Among ceremonies and pomp surrounding the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama for his second term, the news that resonated most with...

The opportunity on Monday to proofread a summary of the next day’s Board of Supervisor’s meeting exposed me to news that poet Elaine Watt wo...

One of the lasting benefits to my having volunteered producing a newsletter for the Lake County Arts Council is the periodic bulletin I get ...

I am writing to encourage Calistoga educators to participate in Poetry Out Loud. As a graduate of Calistoga Junior/Senior High School, I wou...

In only a few short months, it will be time to welcome another Lake County Poet Laureate. Whomever is selected will have to fill the shoes o...

In an emailed message to the Lake Couty Chamber of Commerce, I nominated “Creative Expressions” in the Stars of Lake County’s “Best Idea” ca...

Michele Krueger, the Lake County coordinator for California Poets in the Schools; and Sandra Wade, a former Lake County Poet Laureate; ar...

For about half a year now, the Lake County Record-Bee has published “Creative Expressions” in some of our Saturday editions. This is a proje...