Gettin' Ready to Go Again!
hy-coo.com is the haiku website of Booker T. Washington Magnet High School's Creative Writing magnet. To see more about us and what we do, you can click any link under "EXTRAS."
What's'at . . . a hy-coo?
A haiku is a Japanese poem of 5, 7, & 5 syllables in 3 lines.
Modern American haiku are . . . whatever, but still in 3 lines.
During the 2006-2007 School year:
April 21, 2007: BTW Creative Writing displayed their works at the Alabama Center for the Book's literary festival in Old Alabama Town.
April 13, 2007: Students from the BTW Creative Writing magnet and the Alabama School of Fine Arts Creative Writing department held a joint poetry reading at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
April 7, 2007: BTW Creative Writing displayed their work at the Birmingham Public Library's Alabama Bound festival.
April 2007: Graphophobia 2007 was released!
February 2007: BTW Creative Writing traveled to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival to watch "Gee's Bend."
November 28, 2006: 25 BTW Creative Writing students traveled to the Juliette Hampton Morgan Public Library to hear poet Chris Forhan.
October 13, 2006: Novelist and playwright Jim Grimsley visits BTW Creative Writing. Grimsley is also the director of the creative writing program at Emory University in Atlanta.
October 2006: "Taking the Time to Write" appeared in the "Around Alabama" section of Southern Living magazine!
September 27, 2006: Six BTW Creative students visited the University of Alabama's Book Arts program for a one-day seminar.
September 2006: Graphophobia wins 2nd place in the Iowa High School Press Association's national literary magazine contest.
September 2006: BTW Creative students win 1st and 2nd places in Essay and 1st place in Fiction in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Museum's High School Literary Contest.
This site was last updated on December 9, 2006.
hy-coo.com is the haiku website of Booker T. Washington Magnet High School's Creative Writing magnet. To see more about us and what we do, you can click any link under "EXTRAS."
What's'at . . . a hy-coo?
During the 2006-2007 School year:
April 21, 2007: BTW Creative Writing displayed their works at the Alabama Center for the Book's literary festival in Old Alabama Town.
April 13, 2007: Students from the BTW Creative Writing magnet and the Alabama School of Fine Arts Creative Writing department held a joint poetry reading at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
April 7, 2007: BTW Creative Writing displayed their work at the Birmingham Public Library's Alabama Bound festival.
April 2007: Graphophobia 2007 was released!
February 2007: BTW Creative Writing traveled to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival to watch "Gee's Bend."
November 28, 2006: 25 BTW Creative Writing students traveled to the Juliette Hampton Morgan Public Library to hear poet Chris Forhan.
October 13, 2006: Novelist and playwright Jim Grimsley visits BTW Creative Writing. Grimsley is also the director of the creative writing program at Emory University in Atlanta.
October 2006: "Taking the Time to Write" appeared in the "Around Alabama" section of Southern Living magazine!
September 27, 2006: Six BTW Creative students visited the University of Alabama's Book Arts program for a one-day seminar.
September 2006: Graphophobia wins 2nd place in the Iowa High School Press Association's national literary magazine contest.
September 2006: BTW Creative students win 1st and 2nd places in Essay and 1st place in Fiction in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Museum's High School Literary Contest.
This site was last updated on December 9, 2006.