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Students from St Paul’s Open School seal pouches of emergency food aid for Kids Against Hunger, a national organization that mobilizes schoolchildren to support emergency relief efforts in America and around the world.
©2008 James Sanna
To be honest, I’ve never been an avid reader of poetry. I have nothing against poems, but for some reason my mind wants words on a page to present themselves as prose, and balks at taking them seriously when they’re organized in rhymed couplets, sonnet form, or—God forbid—free verse. When verse is set to music, I can generally handle it better. One reason I found Minneapolis poet Dobby Gibson’s new collection, Skirmish, so enjoyable is that his combination of mordant wit and bittersweet longing so recalls the lyrics of my favorite songwriter, Bob Dylan. MORE »
Two opportunities to speak out on budgets, local and state:
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