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First Lines — JOY JOY JOY
A poem from a former villager, the late Jean Barlow Hudson. Strange, dreamlike, filled with somberness and joy, Jean’s poem helps us welcome the turning of the year.
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First Lines — Poetry of the sleeping breath
The voice of the dog. Simple, straightforward. And then, like a child who speaks an uncanny truth, soulful. Two “poems for dogs” from villager Artie Isaac.
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Poems of renewal at winter solstice
Area residents are invited to enter the “thin time” at Tecumseh Land Trust’s eighth annual Winter Solstice Poetry Reading, held Friday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m., at Glen Helen’s Vernet Ecological Center.
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First Lines — October, catching fire
Not all poems marvel or praise. Some embrace the bleakness — as this month’s poem by MJ White does, beautifully.
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First Lines — A wisdom poem
“There is an impassable gap ….” A poem from villager Jim Malarkey contemplates our strangeness to each other. Intimacy as well as violence grows in that “gap.”
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First Lines — ‘While tottering …’
In this month’s poem, villager Janeal Turnbull Ravndal meditates on marriage, aging and the loss of balance, leading to new forms of grace.
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Book Fair returns Saturday, Aug. 17
The 39th annual Yellow Springs Book Fair will be held Saturday, Aug. 17, 8 a.m.–4 p.m., on the grounds of Mills Lawn.
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First Lines — The world of objects
What do objects want? This month’s poem by Reilly Dixon enters the world of objects.
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First Lines — Of memory, hiding and identity
What happens to those who came before us also happens to us. In a poem by villager Maxine Skuba, world history and personal history touch hands.
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First Lines — The magic of small forms
This month’s poems come from longtime villager Rubin Battino, who has been writing three-line poems for decades. “We hit it off,” he said of the short form, his own adaptation of haiku.
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