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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The public is invited to bring a drum to the Middletown Art Center Art Garden on the corner of Highway 29 and Highway 175 in Middletown for a community drumming circle taking place outdoors on Saturday, Nov. 7.
Musician and music teacher Victor Hall will facilitate the Life Rhythms Drum Circle from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
All ages are welcome. Donations will be accepted. Social distancing and mask-wearing will be observed.
Pre-registration with a donation is recommended, at www.middletownartcenter.org/classes. Your donation supports arts and education programming at MAC.
Join them in community and in healing through rhythm. While awaiting the final election results and manage other stress-inducing events, they welcome everyone to come together to use the rhythms of cultural and personal expression for the release of tension and anxiety and to reinforce our connection to the universal rhythms of life.
Space in the outdoor Art Garden is limited but no one will be turned away for lack of space or lack of funds.
The MAC is located at 21456 State Highway 175 at the junction of Highway 29 in the heart of Middletown.
The MAC Gallery is open Friday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. or by appointment at 707-809-8118.
The MAC continues to adjust and innovate during this time of COVID-19. Social distancing and masking are always observed.
Find out more about events, programs, opportunities, and ways to support the MAC’s efforts to weave the arts and culture into the fabric of life in Lake County at www.middletownartcenter.org.
Musician and music teacher Victor Hall will facilitate the Life Rhythms Drum Circle from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
All ages are welcome. Donations will be accepted. Social distancing and mask-wearing will be observed.
Pre-registration with a donation is recommended, at www.middletownartcenter.org/classes. Your donation supports arts and education programming at MAC.
Join them in community and in healing through rhythm. While awaiting the final election results and manage other stress-inducing events, they welcome everyone to come together to use the rhythms of cultural and personal expression for the release of tension and anxiety and to reinforce our connection to the universal rhythms of life.
Space in the outdoor Art Garden is limited but no one will be turned away for lack of space or lack of funds.
The MAC is located at 21456 State Highway 175 at the junction of Highway 29 in the heart of Middletown.
The MAC Gallery is open Friday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. or by appointment at 707-809-8118.
The MAC continues to adjust and innovate during this time of COVID-19. Social distancing and masking are always observed.
Find out more about events, programs, opportunities, and ways to support the MAC’s efforts to weave the arts and culture into the fabric of life in Lake County at www.middletownartcenter.org.
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BJ Omanson was raised near the Spoon River in Illinois, site of Edgar Lee Master’s Spoon River Anthology, and he has compiled a fine book of poems in Masters’ tradition called Stark County Poems, published by Monongahela Books.
Most of them are too long for this column, but here’s one that I like very much that fits our format.
Nowhere to Nowhere
When they sold off the farm she took the child
and caught a bus out of town—as for him,
with everyone gone and everything grim,
he opened a pint of bourbon, piled
pictures, letters and clothes in the yard,
doused them with kerosene, struck a match
and watched as they burnt to ashes, watched
and worked on his whiskey, working hard.
The next morning he caught an outbound freight
heading god-knows-where and he didn’t care—
he was down to nothing, a gypsy’s fare—
down to a rusty tin cup and a plate,
dice and a bible, a bedroll and fate,
down to a bone-jarring ride on a train
through country dying and desperate for rain,
running nowhere to nowhere and running late.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2017 by BJ Omanson, “Nowhere to Nowhere,” from Stark County Poems (Monongahela Books, 2020). Poem reprinted by permission of BJ Omanson and the publisher. Introduction copyright @2020 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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- Written by: Ted Kooser
