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Politics: Carol Ann Duffy's first official poem as laureate

"How it makes of your face a stonethat aches to weep, of your heart a fist,clenched or thumping, sweating blood, of your tonguean iron latch with no door. How it makes of your right handa gauntlet, a glove-puppet of the left, of your laugha dry leaf blowing in the wind, of...

opinion by Babel-Fish | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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jenniferloring

Obama's Poetry

The U.S. poet laureate, Kay Ryan, was appointed in July 2008 and will continue to serve until next summer. She has joined the ranks of other U.S. Poets Laureate such as Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop and Billy...

created by josiemitchell | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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"Damned Dam" In Bosque County, Texas, Nothing To Sing About After Torrential ...

Songwriter and current Texas Poet Laureate, Steven Fromholz, wrote about tiny Kopperl, Bosque County, Texas, in his epic song The Texas Trilogy. "They dammed up the Brazos to build Lake Whitney. Brought some fishermen down from Dallas and Ft. Worth. Town sure has been quiet...

created by wordlover | 5 years ago
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The Texas FlatLINErs steal the show at the Kerrville Folk Festival

Anita Porterfield

Their beat goes on in perfect rhythm

The Texas FlatLINErs, starring Eric Taylor, Steven Fromholz and Vince Bell, stole the show Monday night, June 4 at the Kerrville Folk Festival, Kerrville, Texas. All three musicians, at some time over the past...

created by Anita Porterfield | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Rudolph Scheffrahn, left, who escaped fighting at Normandy with the Germans toasts Steven Fromholz, Texas Poet Laureate, right

Anita Porterfield

The luckiest man alive escapes death on D-Day

“I am the luckiest man alive,” claims eighty-nine year old Rudolph Scheffrahn, pouring slivovitz into three small, heavily cut crystal goblets and handing two of them to the two men in our group of four. He...

created by Anita Porterfield | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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A strong bond of friendship was formed between elderly man and Texas Poet Laureate (photo courtesy of John Porterfield)

Anita Porterfield

Texas Poet Laureate brings new rhythm to elderly man's life

Prussian born Rudolph Scheffrahn is no stranger to adversity. He and his wife of almost 62 years survived the horrors of World War II when Scheffrahn was drafted by the German army. He barely escaped an assignment...

created by Anita Porterfield | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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A Tribute to Gabriela Mistral.

A Tribute to Gabriela Mistral. Monday, April 30, 2007, 7.30 pm, at the Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, Alice MacKay Room, lower lever. The World Poetry Reading Series is organizing a tribute to Chilean poet, educator and...