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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The Ely Stage Stop and Country Museum will host its monthly Fiddlers Jam on Sunday, Dec. 3.
Arts & Life
- Ted Kooser
American Life in Poetry: Bees Were Better
The University of Minnesota Press has published a fine collection of bee poems, “If Bees are Few.”
Here's one by one of my favorite poets, Naomi Shihab Nye, who lives in San Antonio. Her most recent book is “Famous” from Wings Press.
Bees Were Better
In college, people were always breaking up.
We broke up in parking lots,
beside fountains.
Two people broke up
across a table from me
at the library.
I could not sit at that table again
though I did not know them.
I studied bees, who were able
to convey messages through dancing
and could find their ways
home to their hives
even if someone put up a blockade of sheets
and boards and wire.
Bees had radar in their wings and brains
that humans could barely understand.
I wrote a paper proclaiming
their brilliance and superiority
and revised it at a small café
featuring wooden hive-shaped honey-dippers
in silver honeypots
at every table.
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 ©2008 by Naomi Shihab Nye, “Bees Were Better,” from If Bees Are Few: A Hive of Bee Poems, Ed., James P. Lenfestey, (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Poem reprinted by permission of Naomi Shihab Nye 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.
JUSTICE LEAGUE (Rated PG-13)
The best news about the new DC Comics superhero film “Justice League” is that it’s a contrast to the disappointing “Superman v Batman: Dawn of Justice,” which failed in large measure to excite the fanbase.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The GenX Cinema series presents the 1989 comedy “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” on Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m. at the Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Cobb Mountain Artists, having risen from the ashes of the Valley Fire, is presenting the second of its seasonal arts and crafts fairs on Saturday, Dec. 2, and Sunday, Dec. 3.
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – This Saturday, Nov. 25, the Middletown Art Center is offering a full day of art and culture to the community.
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