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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The public is invited to the opening reception for “Obsession” at the Middletown Art Center this Saturday, Feb. 3, from 6 to 8 p.m.
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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The public is invited to the opening reception for “Obsession” at the Middletown Art Center this Saturday, Feb. 3, from 6 to 8 p.m.
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Join photographer Shane Powers this Saturday, Feb. 3, from noon to 5 p.m. for Photographing Resilience.
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Kick off Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 4 with the Fiddlers Jam at Ely Stage Stop.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – National touring folk-rock duo You Knew Me When will perform at O’Meara Brothers Brewing Co. in Lakeport on Saturday, Feb. 3.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – On Saturday, Feb. 3, The Guitarsonists will be rockin' the blues and putting on a fabulous dance party from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Sulphur Fire Benefit Concert at the Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport.
- Ted Kooser
American Life in Poetry: Monopoly
I'm writing this column on a very cold day, and it's nice to be inside with a board game to play, but better yet, for me at least, to be inside with a poem about a board game.
This Monopoly game by Connie Wanek is from her book Rival Gardens: New and Selected Poems, from the University of Nebraska Press.
Monopoly
We used to play, long before we bought real houses.
A roll of the dice could send a girl to jail.
The money was pink, blue, gold, as well as green,
and we could own a whole railroad
or speculate in hotels where others dreaded staying:
the cost was extortionary.
At last one person would own everything,
every teaspoon in the dining car, every spike
driven into the planks by immigrants,
every crooked mayor.
But then, with only the clothes on our backs,
we ran outside, laughing.
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 by Connie Wanek, “Monopoly,” from Rival Gardens: New and Selected Poems, (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2016). Poem reprinted by permission of Connie Wanek and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2017 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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