FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 27, 2011
Ten Penny Players Poetry Website
A portal to the clouds: poetry and arts in education archives
STATEN ISLAND — Ten Penny Players, publisher of Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream, invites browsers to the further evolution of its website ( http://www.tenpennyplayers.org ) which was first launched in 1998. Waterways has featured a wide range of poets in a limited edition magazine appearing eleven times a year since 1979. Past issues of the magazine (up to September, 2001) are now available online. While continuing to publish a monthly print edition of the little magazine for subscribers, Ten Penny Players will upload one issue from the past ten years each month beginning in October of 2011. Current themes and guidelines for contributors are available at http://scr.bi/gVPRvD .
Browsers are also invited to explore without charge Waterways and Ten Penny Players many other publications for children and adults through the updated site, funded in part by a grant from the NYS Council on the Arts, at www.tenpennyplayers.org .
As of April, 2011, Ten Penny Players has attracted over 210,000 readers to its archive housed at Scribd.com. More than 700 Ten Penny Players’ publications have been uploaded, containing poems by students, teachers and acclaimed authors.
Tenpennyplayers.org also gives the browser access to Ten Penny Players’ online videos of readings, interviews, and workshops. Teachers may now gain access to the Streams student anthologies, In Search of a Song poetry chapbook series, Reprising Joy, Enabling the Family, Care Without Care, Dealing with Differences, and Ten Penny Players’ Literacy, Nutrition, Teen Parenting, and Service Learning curricula.
Visit www.tenpenyplayers.org to learn more about Ten Penny Players, a not-for-profit 501c3 arts in education program, which began as an Equity children’s theater in 1967. Ten Penny Players provides opportunities in the public arena for creating, enjoying, teaching, and discussing expressive and poetic writing from diverse communities of all ages in performance, print, and electronic media.
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