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The Importance of Giving: Jaime Garcia on Ruth Lilly

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Amber Beilharz

Apr 24, 2012

The story I’ve assembled in my head is incomplete. The characters are there: heiress to a billion dollar fortune, a poetry magazine, the grave of Poe. The plot, though, remains sporadic, riddled with recluse and depression. From a news headline three years ago I first read: Poetry Magazine to receive 100 million dollar grant. The occasion on which this grant was offered was the death of the sole heiress to a pharmaceutical fortune. Little has been written about this woman. The Ruth Lilly we know about: an art and poetry lover, a rabid reader, a woman whose generosity has been unmatched in the literary world, has scarcely made headlines before or since her death and contribution.

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Voiceworks #88 ‘Translate LAUNCH

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Joe

Mar 27, 2012

Join us for the Melbourne launch of Voiceworks #88 ‘Translate! It’ll be great party times for readers, writers and editors involved with Voiceworks. And you can get a copy of the magazine before anyone else!

It’s also going to be the last issue edited by Johannes Jakob, so this is his goodbye party too. He’d really, really like you to be there. Also, say hello to the new editor!

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Winning Poem: ARTillery Poetry Slam

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Joe

Dec 19, 2011

Read more about the Artillery Poetry Slam here.

By Kirsti Whalen.

These are the things that I don’t know.

I don’t know how to do calculus.

Or long division.

Or short division.

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Who Do You Think You Are Post 4

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Joe

Dec 06, 2011

“Just Who Do You Think You Are”

During 2011, six diverse schools began working together on a very exciting year 10 student writing project. Collaborating online, the teacher-librarians, English teachers and students shared their personal writing and gained a broad understanding of the diversity of culture and experience across Victoria.

WHO AM I?

By Josh Hanegbi

From: Bialik College

I pace up and down an empty hall, doors on both sides. Each door looks the same but I know that only one will take me forward.

My sharp footsteps slowly turn into the crunch of sand under my feet. The waves breaking on the shore fill the air, timeless and endless.

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Who Do You Think You Are Post 3

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Joe

Nov 29, 2011

“Just Who Do You Think You Are”

During 2011, six diverse schools began working together on a very exciting year 10 student writing project. Collaborating online, the teacher-librarians, English teachers and students shared their personal writing and gained a broad understanding of the diversity of culture and experience across Victoria.

Over the coming weeks, we will be publishing some of the stories from the project here on the Virgule blog.

UNTITLED

By Jake Glanc

From: Bialik College

I want to change the world but instead

I sleep.

I want to feed the poor but instead

I eat.

And all I can do is keep breathing.

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Who Do You Think You Are Post 2

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Sharona

Nov 22, 2011

“Just Who Do You Think You Are”

During 2011, six diverse schools began working together on a very exciting year 10 student writing project. Collaborating online, the teacher-librarians, English teachers and students shared their personal writing and gained a broad understanding of the diversity of culture and experience across Victoria.

Over the coming weeks, we will be publishing some of the stories from the project here on the Virgule blog.

GETTING A GRIP

By Claude Davies

From: Melbourne High

I have far too much time on my hands. It’s a warm Thursday in July, and my excess recreation is manifesting itself as late-night shopping. Shopping for comforting things, like chocolate and MSG-laden noodles.

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Who Do You Think You Are Post 1

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Joe

Nov 15, 2011

“Just Who Do You Think You Are”

During 2011, six diverse schools began working together on a very exciting year 10 student writing project. Collaborating online, the teacher-librarians, English teachers and students shared their personal writing and gained a broad understanding of the diversity of culture and experience across Victoria.

Over the coming weeks, we will be publishing some of the stories from the project here on the Virgule blog.

GRANDPA’S SHOES

By Alice Widdowson

From: Melbourne Girls’ College

I reached down and opened the latch on the small, rusted iron gate. I followed the uneven brick path toward the front door, looking around at the state of the miserable garden. The grass had turned a golden colour, completely dried out after months of battling alone against the scorching summer sun. A feeling of nostalgia crept through my veins as I walked, much like the way the long, thick weeds had wound themselves around the garden, encompassing it.

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Internet Cool

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Rosanna Stevens

Oct 11, 2011

A warning: this isn’t a post filled with fantastic links to Youtube phenomenons, like My Drunk Kitchen. This is about the kind of internet cool we all thought we had when we invented our really benign, daggy adolescent email addresses.

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