Arkansas Teachers Find Literary Spark

Publication: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Date: July 5, 2010

Summary: Teacher-consultants from the Great Bear Writing Project explore the town for a writing marathon, one part of the four-week summer institute.

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When Illene Stewart walked into a used bookstore in Little Rock's River Market District, she wondered about the authors whose works ended up on the shop's shelves.

"How many authors are deceased? How many are still alive?" she wrote in an essay penned in a composition book she toted throughout the district on a sunny day last week.

When Eulea Kiraly entered the same bookstore, she left with a haiku, a Japanese poem of three unrhymed lines: On a shelf in a bookstore: Inspiration, as if you can buy it.

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