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‘Printmaking Resilience’ to feature linocuts March 24
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Join artist John Jennings and create linocuts at the Middletown Art Center this Saturday, March 24, from noon to 5 p.m.
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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Join artist John Jennings and create linocuts at the Middletown Art Center this Saturday, March 24, from noon to 5 p.m.
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Middletown Art Center celebrates third anniversary with ‘Let Loose’ dance March 24
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The Middletown Art Center invites the public to join in a celebration of three years of local art, artists and art making this Saturday, March 24, from 7 to 10:30 p.m. at the Let Loose Dance Party.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The GenX Cinema series presents the 1971 comedy, “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” starring Gene Wilder, on Wednesday, April 4, at 7 p.m. at the Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport.
UKIAH, Calif. – William Shakespeare famously wrote, “All the World’s a Stage.” And in Mendocino College’s current production of “Julius Caesar,” so is the entire Mendocino College theatre.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Arts Council presented a wood sculpture by Travis Rinker to Rosemary “Toni” Hyden at the February Board meeting to thank her for work as a volunteer.
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American Life in Poetry: Yard Sale
I'm devoted to yard and garage sales, and love to spend time with friendly strangers in scuffed front yards and oily, dim garages.
Here's a poem by Matthew Brennan, who lives in Indiana, from his 2016 Lamar University book, One Life.
Yard Sale
"There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful."
— Emerson, Nature
The renters bring out their greasy table,
End of the month again: It sags,
Weighted and warped like them, unable
To hold much more than glasses and rags.
Old clothes and rusty tools compete
For space with magazines they stole
From garbage bins behind our street;
Each shoe reveals a run-down sole.
A few come by, inspect, and leave,
Almost always with empty hands.
But when, at sundown, all things cleave
To slanted light, and when it lands
So rubber, glass, and metal glint—
And for a moment make you squint—
You'll see our neighbors bathed in gold
As if their worth cannot be sold.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2016 "Yard Sale," by Matthew Brennan, from One Life, (Lamar University Literary Press, 2016). Poem reprinted by permission of Matthew Brennan and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2018 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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