If you are interested in the latest on Twilight-the movie, there is information on Stephenie Meyer’s website: http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/twilight_movie.html. Photes and updates.
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Ed Goldberg
Teen Services Librarian

The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association is Proud to Present the Twenty-Second Annual Poetry Contest
The theme is The Crossing, based on Whitman’s poem, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, included in Leaves of Grass. The first stanza is shown below:
Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!
Clouds of the west!–sun there half an hour high–I see you also face to face.
Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious they are to me!
On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose;
And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
Complete contest rules can be found at: http://www.waltwhitman.org/Poetrycontest.asp. Highlights are listed below:
Contest: Write a Poem About a Crossing or Crossings
There are many kinds of crossings: crossings by boat, bus, jet, car, bike, UFO, skateboard, or just crossing the street by foot. Also a crossing could be developmental (small to tall, child to teenager), or emotional (falling in love, losing a loved one, gaining a sibling), or intellectual (crossing to a new understanding or realization—what you knew then, what you know now and how you got there). And, of course, birth and death, are the crossings in and out of this life.
Entries must be postmarked by March 7, 2008 and winners will be notified by mid-May. Mail entries to:
Poetry Contest
Attn: Carolyn Diglio, Coordinator of Visitor Services
Walt Whitman Birthplace Assocation
246 Old Walt Whitman Road
Huntington Stations, NY 11746-4148
Entry categories are Individual Poems or Class Anthologies for grades 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 and 11-12.
Good luck to the poets out there. Let me know if you enter.
Ed Goldberg
Teen Services Librarian

Poseur Design Contest from Hachette Book Group
Have an idea for an uber-cool tote bag? Sketch it or make it and send your design in for a chance for your winning entry to be included in an upcoming Poseur book (not to mention snagging some cool books and $250)! You can check out all the contest details at the publisher’s website: http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/features/poseur/contest/index.html
Important: all entries must be postmarked before March 20, 2008 and received by March 25!!! The Contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are at least 13 years of age but no older than 18 years of age as the time of entry.
Listed below are some of the requirements. Please read the complete Official Rules at the Hachette Book website, shown above.
How to Enter the Contest: To participate in the contest, you must submit a design (see Submission below) and additional information and material, between 12:01 a.m. ET on February 5, 2008, and 11:59 p.m. ET on March 20, 2008. Limit one (1) submission per person.
The Submission:
The Submission will consist of:
(1) Information about you, which you may provide by hand printing: your name, age, complete address (including zip code), daytime phone number and email address (if you have one) on a 3”x 5” card or a 8 1/2” x 11” piece of paper;
(2) A picture of your design of a tote bag (based on the “classic” tote definition, it is a bag, usually rectangular in shape, with two handles and it opens at the top); the picture of your design may be a photograph or a drawing; and
(3) A short paragraph or two describing your tote bag design, e.g., what fabric(s) /color(s) and/or other materials should be used and any inspiration for your tote bag design.
Mail the information, the design and your short paragraph or two in one package to:
Poseur Design Contest
Hachette Book Group
237 Park Avenue, 15-161B
New York, New York 10017
Attention: LM
Submissions must be postmarked no later than March 20, 2008, Midnight (ET), and Sponsor must receive the entries no later than March 25, 2008, 5 pm (ET).
Submission Requirements: Each Submission that is entered into the Contest must meet ALL of the “Submission Requirements” set forth below. (Any Submission that, in Sponsor’s good faith judgment, violates the following criteria may be disqualified):
a) The Submission must be the entrant’s original, previously unpublished design and work;
b) The Submission must not include images that are obscene, pornographic, libelous or otherwise objectionable; and
c) The Submission must not include any photographs of any person other than the entrant, nor include any corporate logos.
Good luck to all of you who enter. Let me know if you win.
Ed Goldberg
Teen Services Librarian