Category: Pennsylvania
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Saturday Songs from the Kings of Convenience
I live in a community that treasures live music. Perhaps that makes sense here in the middle of Penn’s Woods where we have lots of natural beauty but only a few movie theaters and rare and scattered nightclubs. I’ll never understand what some people mean when they say, “There is nothing to do around here.”…
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Join Poetry Under the Paintings from the Comfort of Your Home
You’ve read posts here and watched videos too about this local event I go to every month called “Poetry Under the Paintings.” It’s hosted by Faustina’s Gallery in the gorgeous little Victorian town of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where every second Thursday a group of local poetry and art lovers join to celebrate verse read aloud in…
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Richard Blanco’s Penn State Campus Reading
Last night we featured “Killing Mark” by Richard Blanco for our Thursday Love Poem, and included a short video clip of him reading the poem somewhere. The video description wasn’t helpful with that information, so if you know please pass that on! I also mentioned that our local Poetry Under the Paintings crew went to…
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Local News from Someplace Else, Two Readings and a Review
It is always snowing or raining someplace like here while our own windows lie their pretend sunshine on a street somewhat like yours. Whom can we trust when a smiling anchor prophesies the utmost danger around the corner –From the title poem of Local News from Someplace Else, by Marjorie Maddox Please don’t think I’m exaggerating…
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Friday Flashback, Jon on the Blue Guitar
Last weekend I asked my son Jonathan to bring his guitar with him when he and his younger brother came to stay the weekend. There is something that I cannot quite explain, a feeling of peace and security when the people I love are in the house with me, doing what makes them themselves. The…
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Pennsylvania “Working-class Poets” in World Literature Today
I was talking about social media here yesterday, and when I dragged myself from covers to coffee and consciousness late this morning, I was surprised to see how much that post had been shared and tweeted about in the early hours of this Wednesday. To say more would be to engage in the kind of…
