The 2014 CRHS Poetry Festival delighted the Cumberland Regional school community with performances weaving together words, music, and storytelling in a celebration of poetry and the arts.
The language arts fete, made possible through the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, welcomed to Cumberland Regional guest poets Charlie Bondhus, Christine Salvatore, J.C. Todd, Gretna Wilkinson, and featured poet Kurtis Lamkin. Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State and the Cumberland County Board of Chosen Freeholders through the Cumberland County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
The professional artists offered students inspiration and guidance during a release celebration of CRHS literary magazine “Omnium,” classroom visits, and a spirited assembly at the end of the school day in the CRHS Performing Arts Center, where the guests and students offered performances of their artwork.
“The flute and I have our own poetry,” explained CRHS senior Elijah Gould, opening the assembly wearing traditional Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape regalia, coaxing a narrative of notes from a wooden flute. “The trees have their stories; you just can’t hear them in this way when they’re not a flute yet.”
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