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OPINION: Sollman shows accessibility, a community focus - Forest Grove News-Times
Too many elected officials are hard to reach and rarely seen. Sen. Janeen Sollman is different. She’s accessible and community focused. I’ve had the chance to see Sen. Sollman show up in our community time and again. She has hosted more than 160 community conversations, consistently shows up at local events and makes herself genuinely available to constituents who want to be heard. She welcomes everyone, every walk of life, every background, every viewpoint.
Spring/Summer 2023 — Konch Magazine
Editorial Al Young, the Poet of Love by Publisher Blog Staying Healthy by Monique LeNoir Essays Jazz Speaks on Grammy Awards by Ron Scott Skunder by A.B. Spellman Haiti Snapshots by Boadiba Al Young and the Universe of Berkeley by Judy Juanita Fiction Anonymity is Life Part I by Sola Saar Behind the Grey Rhino Part IV by Vitin A. Cruz Interviews Medicine for the Eyes: An Interview with Danny Simmons by Molly Guillermo Was 1960s Beat Buddhism Phony?
Al Young | Poetry Out Loud
The writer Al Young shares a birthday with Walt Whitman, and like his great predecessor in the American grain is a poet of celebratory exuberance. Born on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and raised in both the South and North, Young studied at the University of Michigan before settling in California; he has also traveled extensively.
A Multipronged Approach to Building a “Smart” Facility Management Workforce
A Johnson Controls technician at work in a chiller room The skills gap in technical fields is of major concern across the facility management, maintenance, and service industries. High rates of retirement, combined with fewer trained candidates to fill those roles, mean that as many as two million jobs could go unfilled in the coming years. To address the deficit, companies and educational institutions must work together to strengthen workforce development initiatives.
Where I Write – The Rumpus.net
Where I Write Where I Write #29: Ten Werecantos By Josh Cook March 5th, 2015 We think of our brains as a place. We surround thoughts with metaphors of environment. ...more Where I Write #28: A Small Bench Between Two 25-Story Buildings By Billy Burgos June 7th, 2014 I was doing clerical work for a magazine publisher in a high-rise along the Wilshire corridor and each day I would take my one hour lunch on a small bench between two 25 story buildings.
Birthday Poem Poem by Al Young
First light of day in Mississippi son of laborer & of house wife it says so on the official photostat not son of fisherman & child fugitive from cottonfields & potato patches from sugarcane chickens & well-water from kerosene lamps & watermelons mules named jack or jenny & wagonwheels, years of meaningless farm work work Work WORK WORK WORK— "Papa pull you outta school bout March to stay on the place & work the crop" —her own earliest knowledge of human hopelessness & waste She carried me...
Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons
The renowned poet Al Young presents his first collection of poetry – Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons – since being named California Poet Laureate by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In this latest collection, Al Young again demonstrates why his poetry is beloved worldwide. While other poets speak, Al Young sings. His life spent in music and the work that reflects it, shows readers that poetry is the boom-box of the soul.
Key to the Dollar Store
Just tell me who the hell am I? What powers did I, do I hold? What right have I to say “my” or “mine” or “me” — all honey- glazed, all bullet-proofed and worshipful of any gangster “I”? The key to the Dollar Store hangs on my belt. Yes, “my” again. And what of roof, of bread, of loving laughter? What’s in? My vinyl favorite Booker Little, vintage, soothes me. He jars our ears with trumpet joy and stuff freed folks stash in cabinets. Never one to make too much of why we love and what, I love my powers.
Spring 2016
The Spring 2016 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. Acclaimed poets Tom Sleigh and Alan Shapiro guest-edit this poetry and prose issue of Ploughshares.
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