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City Folk, Arts Division

10.18.13 Posted in today's words by

John Grey, writing on community. City Folk, Arts Division By John Grey So here we are, myself and more than two million of my brethren. We live in cities. We answer to roads and traffic, stores and high-rises, the constant crush with others like ourselves. I breathe in brick and glass and steel before I […]


A Disturbance

10.17.13 Posted in today's words by

James G Piatt connects us to the natural world. A Disturbance By James G Piatt The burnt willow trees On the smoldering edge Of the lazy stagnant brook, Bend to the wind line an Anxious crowd of people Waiting for the night train: I watch in silence feeling a Disturbance in the earth, I turn […]


Silly Sammy

10.16.13 Posted in today's words by

More fun with verse by Paul Goldberg. Silly Sammy By Paul Goldberg Silly Sammy sat in her chair afraid to move out of plain fear. Afraid of what the day would bring she made a decision not to do anything. Afraid of good fortune for fear of its loss, afraid of ill tidings for fear […]


Dear Diane (Letter 3)

10.15.13 Posted in today's words by

Another in the series of Bobbie Troy’s Dear Diane poems. Dear Diane (Letter 3) By Bobbie Troy geography separates us you in the wild west dodging bullets and lost souls me in the east near the nation’s corrupt capital and both of us trying to find our way like everyone else but being luckier than […]


On Leaving My Parents in West Virginia

10.14.13 Posted in today's words by

Lindsay Barrick is a young mixed-media artist living and creating in western North Carolina. She is currently working on a series of encaustic paintings and ekphrastic poems that center on her home state of West Virginia, exploring themes of family, communion with the land, and the difficult issues facing the people of Appalachia including mountain […]


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