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In a Word: Saving a Literary Tradition.We at :devexpound: have peeked into Oxford University's playbook and found inspiration.
For 132 years, All Souls College has held something of an intellectual marathon, open only to one or two hand-picked grad students: two twelve-hour days of intense essay writing, the most famous challenge of which is the fabled one-word-question essay. This test of intellectual agility began with a single sheet of paper with one noun printed neatly in the center, and ended three hours later when the allotted time had run out.
Widely considered to be the most difficult exam in the world, it has stumped the likes of Joseph Stiglitz and T E Lawrence one
Chat Week Extravaganza!PoetryPlease is Proud to Announce Its First Ever Chat Week!
After much planning and effort on the part of the PoetryPlease staff, PoetryPlease is ready to announce plans to run its first ever Chat Week starting Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 12pm EST. We've got a lot of great activities lined up, all of which will take place in the PoetryPlease Chat Room.
We currently have a schedule of events posted to give you an idea of what's to come. We wanted to fill you all in early to give you time to plan when you need to call in sick or skip school so you don't miss out. :) The schedule is subject to change as we receive feedback about chat week a
Winter 01 The leaves have surrendered to a chill-wintry wind,Winter 01 by ~sweetcapris
sending shudders up the backs of bare trees.
Their crisp silhouettes rattle against a grey-fog sky,
and I hold my breath for a moment
half expecting the boughs to shatter.
My feet are snug between three layers of socks,
stuffed and packed into my cotton-lined boots.
With confidence I try the ice puddle that
hugs the tree's upturned roots.
One step,
One step's all it takes to break the shell
and expose the slushy ice bath beneath.
Into hands cupped over my mouth, I sigh...
No ice skating today.
Sta.sh
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what we choose is never what we really need
Send us poems!
#themissingslate|#Writers-Workshop
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what we choose is never what we really need
Send us poems!
#themissingslate|#Writers-Workshop
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<salshep> but then I have a thing for wood
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<salshep> but then I have a thing for wood
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Cause a punk rock song wont ever change the world
but I can tell you about a couple that changed me
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Jack asked Jill
Are you on the pill?
As I have no form of protection
Jill looked grim
Then said to him
Where he could stick his erection