Teaching at UPenn

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Join the writers in my writing classes for: FROM INNOCENCE TO EXPERIENCE READINGS BY YOUNG WRITERS Thursday, 24 April 2013, Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 2pm: Fiction Writers; 3-3:30pm: Joint Reception 3:30pm: Non-fiction writers

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Lorene's blog page

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Free! illustrator Beth Lewis, next to Maria de la Cruz, from her collection at the Philadelphia Please Touch Museum, on exhibit from March 24 through April. Like Beth's paper cut-outs, these wooden sculptures allow light and shadow to double the image. They combine Africa and Europe; clarity and nuance; and they layer over layered meaning with playfulness.

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Community

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Guest blogger Jackie Wiggins, educator and historian, who wrote the curriculum guide for Free: Great Escapes from Slavery on the Underground Railroad, remembers her mentor and friend Dr. Shirley Parham, a fierce advocate for black history.

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This month's book quote:

It is the story that outlives the sound of war-drums and the exploits of brave fighters. It is the story, not the others, that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. When we are young and without experience we all imagine that the story of the land is easy, that every one of us can get up and tell it. But that is not so... Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

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