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  Jim Metcalf - Collected Poems

  Jim Metcalf

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  This anthology collects four complete volumes of poetry from the beloved New Orleans poet, journalist, and anchorman. Like Robert Frost before him, Jim Metcalf’s poetic commentaries on everyday objects and events offer a keen insight into our world and our own humanity. This volume includes four rare and out-of-print collections of Metcalf’s poetry: Follow Another Star, Please to Begin, In Some Quiet Place, and Jim Metcalf's Journal. With a foreword by his longtime friend and colleague Phil Johnson, this anthology serves as a brilliant reminder of the poet and his work.

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  Get Well Soon - Poems

  Jamie Sharpe

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  In the spring of 2020, Jamie Sharpe was in New Brunswick, purportedly studying the famed Magnetic Hill outside Moncton. A dog-walker discovered Sharpe in a ditch, disrobed except for his backpack containing a manuscript …
  		 
  With his fifth collection, Get Well Soon, Sharpe reaffirms “he is utter master of his language. Whether [Sharpe’s] poems are the result of long lucubration or the inspiration of the moment, they bear no mark of effort, and it is not without admiration, nor even without astonishment, that one is carried along — by the noble, unswerving amble of those gorgeous stanzas, proud white hackneys harnessed in gold — into the glory of the evenings. Rich and subtle, [Jamie Sharpe]’s poetry is never merely lyrical; it always encloses an idea within the garland of its metaphors, and however vague or general that idea may be, it serves to strengthen the necklace; the pearls are secured by a thread that, though sometimes invisible, is ever sure.”

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  Happy Place

  Joey Polisena

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  IMPLIED SECRETS: Poetry slides an incisor behind our addiction to living, rips essence from its bones and grinds us chunk to paste, half sustenance, the rest, waste. Verses are beds for the senseless masturbated to perfect sense. Sentiments and sympathies in micro-doses of self-psychoanalytics affixed to symptoms, ticks, and epiphanies. Come inside, we have odes to sing. *** These verses twist trauma and grief into self-loving peace, a therapy cushion of words and doodle artwork. Come feel the dark so we can see the light again.

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  Arcadia

  Tom Stoppard

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  Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe’s influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in the year 1809-1812 and 1989, the play examines the lives of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier. The New York Times calls Arcadia: “Tom Stoppard’s richest, most ravishing comedy to date.  A play of wit, intellect, language, brio and emotion,” and The Royal Institution of Great Britain calls it: “the best science book ever written.”Includes an interview with Steven Strogatz, the author of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos and  professor at the Cornell University School of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Kate Burton as HannahMark Capri as ChaterJennifer Dundas as ThomasinaGregory Itzin as Bernard NightingaleDavid Manis as Cpt. BriceChristopher Neame as Noakes and JellabyPeter Paige as ValentineDarren Richardson as AugustusKate Steele as ChloeSerena Scott Thomas as Lady CroomDouglas Weston as SeptimusDirected by John Rubinstein. Recorded at the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.Arcadia is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

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  Oh! Where do the Fairies Hide...

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

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  Librivox volunteers bring you 12 readings of Oh! Where Do the Fairies Hide Their heads by Thomas Haynes Bayly. Oh! Where do the fairies hide their heads,When snow lies on the hills,When frost has spoiled their mossy beds,And crystallized their Rills?Beneath the moon they cannot tripIn circles o’er the plain;And draughts of dew they cannot sip,Till green leaves come again.This was the weekly poetry project for February 15, 2015.

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  The Black Experience in America...

  Various Authors

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  A collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th Century epistolary conversations between black Baptist preachers to 1930s testimony by ex-slaves.Contents:Ex-slave James Bolton - United States Work Projects AdministrationDeath of Charles - by Ida B. Wells-BarnettFifty Years - by James Weldon Johnson	Personal Liberty Laws - by Marion Gleason McDougall	Reporting	- by Henry Ossian FlipperThe Ku Klux Klan - by Eyre DamerYour Negro Neighbor - by Benjamin Griffith BrawleyThe Praline Woman - by Alice Dunbar NelsonEx-Slave Minnie Davis - United States Work Projects AdministrationWhere the Negro Lives - by Mary White OvingtonNobody's Lookin' But De Owl and De Moon - by James Weldon JohnsonA Plea For Industrial Opportunity by Fanny Jackson CoppinSketches of the Black Baptist Church - by VariousLawing and Jawing	- by Zora Neale HurstonExcerpt from The Future of the American Negro - by Booker T. WashingtonHot Foot Hannibal - by Charles Waddell Chesnutt	The Passing Tradition and The African Civilization	 - by Monroe Nathan WorkThe Sunday School and Church...	- by Daniel Webster DavisEx-Slave Pierce Cody - United States Work Projects AdministrationHere Comes A Young Man Courting - by Thomas Washington Talley'Lazy' - by James Weldon JohnsonOf The Meaning of Progress - by W. E. B. Du Bois.

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