Last week, we chatted with Get Lit-Words Ignite founder Diane Lane, who is in Bend this weekend for the MUSE Women’s Conference. Her program uses poetry to encourage teen literacy and empowerment. (Scroll down to the video to see those results in action.) Lane had more to say then we could fit in print, so […]
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Poetry to the People
Get Lit brings literary empowerment to MUSE Conference
As a teenager, Diane Lane couldn’t be bothered with poetry. Despite the passion her teachers tried to impart, she just couldn’t get into poems about flora and fauna, written by dead white dudes. “I didn’t give a hoot about flora,” Lane tells the Source. “I was from New Jersey. So I cared about the height […]