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Their contents are fiery and uncompromising. A few of the poems, like the title one, cross the line from activist poetry into agitprop. (The "New Citizen Army" is us: "all regulars must be / mindless in the execution of duty.") More often, though, [Greg Delanty] gives elegance and dry wit even to his harshest indictments, as in a poem about the weed loosestrife's invasive march across the countryside, which turns out (surprise!) really to be about something else: "You'll overtake the earth and destroy even yourself. / Ah, our loosestrife, purple plague, beautiful us.
Someone in Vermont's gotta write poems about cows. Craftsbury poet [Julia Shipley] does it with economy and sometimes poignancy. It's more accurate to say her chapbook [Herd] is about the farming life. Shipley, a Pennsylva...
... MFA at Bennington College while working in barns, which she still does today. Herd combines lyrics ...
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The elderly man shooting the breeze with folks at an Ellicott food and clothing pantry is reluctant to share his full name, but when it comes to discussing his financial situation, he's an open book.
I'm poor, lady. I'm very poor," says the man, who will identify himself only as "Mr. Hughes.
..."It's people living in barns, in cars, in run-down trailers," says Peak Vista pphysician's assistant Greg Morris, who heads the nonprofit's Homeless Medical...
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Susie Barns
... Funeral Home in Tazewell, with the Reverend Greg Wood and Walter Schwitzerlett officiating. Burial...
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Reviews of 2 films - Movie Review
... in Paul Schrader's Auto Focus and Chuck Barns in George Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Min...Here the casting of a natural charmer like Greg Kinnear is pitch perfect. He plays Crane as a man ...
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... amounted to collective suicide, (10) and Greg Barns' claim in 2001 that an ageing and declining ...
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The future of Riverside Downs is uncertain after Thursday's barn fire that killed 27 horses, co-owner Mark Bowling said Friday.
We are going to leave it open for right now" with the remaining half-dozen or so barns, he said. "My partner and I have been ready to shut it down since last year. (But) the people with the horses have nowhere else to go.
...Greg Hardt, chief financial officer and executive vice ...
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Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano is warning horse people to lock up their saddles and keep a watch dog on guard.
Deputies are investigating the theft of 17 saddles, other horse tack and tools from horse trailers, barns and storage rooms at six places around the county in December. The department reported an increase in the number of stolen horse gear in the last two months.
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Beef: It's what's gone missing.
Twenty-one head of feeder cattle were rustled sometime between Thursday night and yesterday morning from a pasture near Mount Zion Church Road and Route B, said Sgt. Mike Stubbs of the Boone County Sheriff's Department.
..." that involves the more than 120 sale barns in the state. The program urges barn mangers to re...Reach Greg Miller at (573) 815-1723 or gmiller@tribmail.com....
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FORT FAIRFIELD Its a beautiful day in the heart of Aroostook Countys potato country. Blue skies span forever over acres of plowed and planted fields.
Hill after hill, the dark brown rows extend to the horizon, broken only by thin strips of woods dividing fields and, unexpectedly, a 2,250-head herd of cattle.
... and building it out with massive covered barns and sheds that could house the cattle that werent ... comes from Smiths Farm in Presque Isle, said Greg Smith, a co-owner. Any customer is an important cu...
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Godspell" for Newington Children's Theatre Company's production (teens ages 12-18), by appointment only: 860-666-6282, free, NCTC Performing Arts Theatre, 743 N. Mountain Road, Newington; 860-666-6282. Long Wharf Theatre's 2011-'12 Season for local non-Equity Actors 18+, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and 2:30-6 p.m. Aug. 31, appointments are strongly recommended, free, 203-787-4282, 222 Sargent Drive, New Haven; 203-787-4284.
BOOKS, WRITING, TALKS
...Flanders Nature Center "Stone Walls and Barns", 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sept. 1 and 8, art workshop... in the Night", sculptures and paintings by Gregor Bugaeff, through Sept. 30, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-T...