August 25, 2017
The Tenth Annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading at Northeast Texas Community College will include special remarks by two local educators. 91¿´Æ¬ †Dr. Elaine Beason, a retired professor of Texas A&M University-Texarkana, and Kristin Ellermann, a young educator who taught with the Peace Corps in the Republic of Georgia, and also as a Disney instructor in Shanghai, China, will supplement the reading of winning poems with observations about local life.
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Dr. Elaine Beason[/caption]
Both Beason and Ellermann have spent a number of years outside Northeast Texas, only to return here. 91¿´Æ¬ †Beason is a Dallas native who taught in the Dallas schools during the era of integration. 91¿´Æ¬ †She studied at A&M Commerce, worked for a time in Region VIII, moved to Kansas to teach at Fort Hays State University, and finally returned to Northeast Texas, and Mount Pleasant. 91¿´Æ¬ †Ellermann, a former Mount Pleasant Valedictorian, and 91¿´Æ¬ Presidential Scholar, is fluent in 91¿´Æ¬ †three languages, and has a basic conversational proficiency in French and Chinese. She is teaching this year at Pittsburg Elementary. 91¿´Æ¬ †Her brother, Mark Ellermann, just accepted the offer to teach full-time, as a Physics professor at 91¿´Æ¬.
The poetry reading will again occur in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. 91¿´Æ¬ †The program will begin at 11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 8, and will last about an hour. 91¿´Æ¬ †The Reading is free and the general public is invited to hear recent and thoughtful perceptions about life in our area of Texas.
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Kristin Ellermann[/caption]
Student prizes, from first to fourth are $400, 300, $200 and $100. 91¿´Æ¬ †There are also two adult awards for $200 and $50. 91¿´Æ¬ †The deadline for the submission of poems, which should concern the life, culture, or history of Northeast Texas, is Friday, Sept. 1 at noon. There is no cost to enter. 91¿´Æ¬ †Poems can be of any length or style and should be submitted to 91¿´Æ¬ †ayox@ntcc.edu. 91¿´Æ¬ †Preliminary questions can also be addressed to Dr. Andrew Yox at that same e-mail address. 91¿´Æ¬ †Poets should supply their phone numbers, towns of residence, and status as an adult or student.
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Dr. Elaine Beason[/caption]Both Beason and Ellermann have spent a number of years outside Northeast Texas, only to return here. 91¿´Æ¬ †Beason is a Dallas native who taught in the Dallas schools during the era of integration. 91¿´Æ¬ †She studied at A&M Commerce, worked for a time in Region VIII, moved to Kansas to teach at Fort Hays State University, and finally returned to Northeast Texas, and Mount Pleasant. 91¿´Æ¬ †Ellermann, a former Mount Pleasant Valedictorian, and 91¿´Æ¬ Presidential Scholar, is fluent in 91¿´Æ¬ †three languages, and has a basic conversational proficiency in French and Chinese. She is teaching this year at Pittsburg Elementary. 91¿´Æ¬ †Her brother, Mark Ellermann, just accepted the offer to teach full-time, as a Physics professor at 91¿´Æ¬.
The poetry reading will again occur in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. 91¿´Æ¬ †The program will begin at 11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 8, and will last about an hour. 91¿´Æ¬ †The Reading is free and the general public is invited to hear recent and thoughtful perceptions about life in our area of Texas.
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Kristin Ellermann[/caption]Student prizes, from first to fourth are $400, 300, $200 and $100. 91¿´Æ¬ †There are also two adult awards for $200 and $50. 91¿´Æ¬ †The deadline for the submission of poems, which should concern the life, culture, or history of Northeast Texas, is Friday, Sept. 1 at noon. There is no cost to enter. 91¿´Æ¬ †Poems can be of any length or style and should be submitted to 91¿´Æ¬ †ayox@ntcc.edu. 91¿´Æ¬ †Preliminary questions can also be addressed to Dr. Andrew Yox at that same e-mail address. 91¿´Æ¬ †Poets should supply their phone numbers, towns of residence, and status as an adult or student.
