Literary Arts Section :: Page 8

• First Lines — The freedom of poems

  By Audrey HackettFebruary 28, 2019

  

  There is enormous freedom in a poem. It is the same freedom found within the human mind. This month, a poem, or a spacious poem-prayer, by villager Moriel Rothman-Zecher.

• First Lines — In memoriam: Mary Oliver

  By Audrey HackettJanuary 31, 2019

  

  Mary Oliver is the lovely, lambent consciousness of every poem she wrote in praise of heron and hawk, windflower and black oak, lightning and first snow. It is she who went out into the world, she who scribbled notes.

• First Lines — New moves: a poetry column

  By Audrey HackettDecember 5, 2018

  

  The News is launching a monthly poetry column, “First Lines.” Each month, we’ll publish a poem written by a local poet.

• At the Library — Learning to disarm the inner critic

  By Megan BachmanOctober 25, 2018

  

  For the past nine years, local author Rebecca Kuder has dialogued with an inner voice that once kept her from accessing her creativity as a writer, and her joy as a person.

• Author and professor writes on comics, cats

  By Guest ContributorOctober 18, 2018

  

  Wittenberg College English professor Kate Polak is the author of a book on comics, “Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics,” which this year became a finalist for the prestigious Eisner Award.

• Together, local poets refine their verses

  By Guest ContributorAugust 30, 2018

  

  A group of five poets have met monthly on Sunday evenings in their homes for the last two years, to help each other improve their poetry skills.

• Paranormal author to speak at Spirited Goat

  By Megan BachmanMay 10, 2018

  

  Paranormal author Michele Zirkle will share the story of a water haunting in her West Virginia home and other esoterica at a talk in town Saturday.

• Four questions for poet Kaveh Akbar

  By Audrey HackettMarch 27, 2018

  

  Poet Kaveh Akbar is coming to Wright State University April 3, as part of its Visiting Writers Series. Here, the News asks Akbar four questions about his life in poetry.

• Hamilton honored as ‘Great Ohioan’

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 20, 2018

  

  Local children’s author Virginia Hamilton was given Great Ohioan Award by the Ohio Statehouse this week.

• Bill Felker’s new book offers riches of home

  By Audrey HackettDecember 21, 2017

  

  Camel crickets in the tub. Robinsong and its absence. A koi pond in winter. Hepatica, violet cress, bloodroot, Virginia bluebells. The “iconography” of light on a wall. Memories of adolescent devotion in a Catholic seminary. All of these subjects illuminate local almanac writer Bill Felker’s new book.