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            <title>"Poets Among Children"</title>
            <author>Viola Muse</author>
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               <name>Zariah Grant</name>
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               <resp>Encoding and edition</resp>
               <name>Thomas Brandenburger</name>
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            <p>This document was produced as part of the Viola Muse Digital Edition (violamuse.unfdhi.org), based at the University of North Florida.</p>
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                  <country>USA</country>
                  <region>Florida</region>
                  <settlement>Jacksonville</settlement>
                  <repository>Jacksonville Historical Society</repository>
                  <collection>Viola Muse Collection (1959-18)</collection>
                  <idno>Folder 10, item 6</idno>
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                  <summary>Discussion of young poets, including Aria Louise Rogers, and their poetry</summary>
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                  <p style="right">Viola B. Muse</p>
                  <p style="center"><choice><orig>__________</orig><reg/></choice></p>
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                     <head style="center"><hi style="underline">Poets <choice><orig>among</orig><reg>Among</reg></choice> <choice><orig>children</orig><reg>Children</reg></choice></hi></head>
                    
                     <p><choice><orig>"</orig><reg/></choice><title level="a">Look to Jesus</title><choice><orig>"</orig><reg/></choice> and <choice><orig>"</orig><reg/></choice><title level="a">In the Name of Love</title><choice><orig>"</orig><reg/></choice><lb/>
                        appeared in a <name type="place" subtype="city">Jacksonville</name> weekly paper<choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice><lb/>
                        the <title level="m">Tattler</title>,
                        <note type="contextual">
                           See <ref target="common-annotations.xml#tattler"><mentioned>The <title level="m">Tattler</title></mentioned></ref>.
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                        one in <date when="1936-02">February</date> and the<lb/>
                        other <date when="1936-03">March<choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice> 1936</date><choice><orig>.</orig><reg>,</reg></choice> <choice><orig>Both</orig><reg>both</reg></choice> composed by a<lb/>
                        student in <choice><orig>12 B</orig><reg>12B</reg></choice> class at 
                        <name type="place" subtype="building"><name type="institution" subtype="educational">Stanton High School</name></name>.<lb/>
                        <name type="person">Aria Louise Rogers</name><choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice>
                        <note type="contextual">
                           See <ref target="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/52">Aria Louise Rogers</ref> for a profile of this student.
                           
                        </note>the contributor and composer<choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice> <lb/>
                  lives at <name type="place" subtype="address">1117 <choice><abbr>W.</abbr><expan>West</expan></choice> 
                     Church <choice><abbr>St</abbr><expan>Street</expan></choice></name><choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice> diagonally across<lb/>
                  from 
                        <name type="place" subtype="building"><name type="institution" subtype="educational"><choice><orig>La Villa</orig><reg>LaVilla</reg></choice> <choice><orig>grammar</orig><reg>Grammar</reg></choice> <choice><orig>school</orig><reg>School</reg></choice></name></name>. She is eighteen<lb/>
                        years of age<choice><orig>;</orig><reg></reg></choice> and has compiled a book of<lb/>
                        poems she has written by inspiration. Con<choice><orig>&#8211;</orig><reg/></choice><lb break="no"/>tributes regularly to the <choice><orig>"</orig><reg/></choice><title level="m">Tattler</title><choice><orig>"</orig><reg/></choice> and has also contri<choice><orig>^</orig><reg/></choice><add type="caret">buted</add><lb/> 
                        to the <choice><orig>"</orig><reg/></choice><title level="m"><choice><orig>Mirrow</orig><reg>Mirror</reg></choice></title><choice><orig>"</orig><reg/></choice><choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice>   a negro magazine. (8)</p>
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               (two poems attached)
                        <note type="editorial">The two poems mentioned do not appear to be located in the Viola Muse Collection at the Jacksonville Historical Society, nor does the other, written by a different student, mentioned below.</note>
               
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                     <p style="center"><choice><orig>__________</orig><reg/></choice></p>
                     
                 
                     <p><choice><orig>"</orig><reg/></choice><title level="a"><name type="person">Joe Lewis</name><choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice></title><choice><orig>"</orig><reg/></choice> a poem written by a girl<lb/>
                        in the seventh grade<choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice>  
                        <name type="place" subtype="building"><name type="institution" subtype="educational"><choice><orig>La Vila</orig><reg>LaVilla</reg></choice> Park <choice><orig>school</orig><reg>School</reg></choice></name></name><choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice> <lb/>
                           shows a natural tendency toward com<choice><orig>&#8211;</orig><reg/></choice><lb break="no"/>posing poetry. (9)</p>
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               (poem attached)
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                     <p style="center"><choice><orig>__________</orig><reg/></choice></p>
                     <note type="editorial">This page contains an additional paragraph that is struck completely (see transcription view), and which is similar to the text found at the start of <ref target="https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/4">Notes on Art in Public Schools</ref>.</note>
               <p><del type="strikeout">Although drawing is not taught in the<lb/>
                  negro schools of <name type="place" subtype="city">Jacksonville</name> <choice><abbr>Fla.</abbr><expan>Florida</expan></choice> there are<lb/>
                  many boys and girls who show natural<lb/>
                  inclination to draw and paint. In the<lb/>
               school rooms at 
                  <name type="place" subtype="building"><name type="institution" subtype="educational">La Villa Park School</name></name>, which<lb/>
                  is located on <name type="place" subtype="address">Everson <choice><abbr>St</abbr><expan>Street</expan></choice> between Beaver &amp; Church</name>, just<lb/>
               across from 
                  <name type="place" subtype="park">La Villa Park</name>, can be seen any day</del></p>
               
               
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