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Is Poetry an Art Form?

In one of her recent podcasts, author Joanna Penn ruminated on how we encourage or discourage children from writing. https://pca.st/episode/ece3776a-71e7-42ee-b1f4-21cdcf3cb84b During her conversation with Coleen M. Story, Joanna commented that our creative selves are a bit like children, and we need to have our self-confidence boosted every now and again.

November 7, 2023 Biography

Professional Reciter

Professional Reciter Queen Victoria died in 1901, and the 63 years of her reign are known as the Victorian era. In 1937, Irene Mawer (then aged 44) described herself as having been ‘that Victorian phenomena – a professional reciter’. Miss Mawer was born in 1893, thereby just sliding it at