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Articles by John Haines
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Champaign-Urbana has a strong communal spirit that provides its members plenty of ways to get engaged and feel like they are a part of something bigger. Little free library is one of those many niches, building posts that mimic small houses to host books. For over a decade, these little libraries have been enhancing access to reading materials. Around Chambana neighborhoods, people are welcome to take and leave books for the people after them.
Owl by Anne Haven McDonnell - Poems | Academy of American Poets
We move within the snow-chromed world: Like-animal. Like-deer. An alphabet. Along a street white as lamplight into the winter, walking—: like language, a new text. I touch her with the eyes of my skin. The way I read any beloved—: from the ramus of the left jaw down to the cuneiform of the right foot. She isn’t so much what she is—: and becomes herself only when added to the space where she isn’t. What is touch—: not the touch not the hand but the white heat it floats through.
Race, Rock, and Breaking Barriers
The White Citizens Council of Birmingham, Alabama, called it a plot. As musicologist John Haines explains, members of the group, which would become known for its 1956 attack on musician Nat “King” Cole, were angered over the “sexual overtones” of rock music, decrying it as a devious plot to infiltrate the minds of white teenagers.
The Dream of February
In the moonlight, in the heavy snow, I was hunting along the sunken road and heard behind me the quiet step and smothered whimper of something following . . . Ah, tree of panic I climbed to escape the night, as the furry body glided beneath, lynx with steady gaze, and began the slow ascent. II And dark blue foxes climbed beside me with famished eyes that glowed in the shadows; I stabbed with a sharpened stick until one lay across the path with entrails spilled, and the others melted away.
The Conservative Christian War on Rock and Roll
From nearly the first moment rock and roll found its way onto records and radios, and into American homes, it was controversial. Fans and fear mongers have debated everything from lyrical content to music video imagery. But in 1950s and ’60s America, much of this discourse was based in religion.
President Trump’s Withdrawal from Germany: Redefining American Security?
Original Orbis piece: John R. Haines, “Redefining American Security Interests in Europe,” Volume 63, No. 4 (Fall 2019) Interview with the author John Haines by Orbis editor Nikolas Gvosdev What does President Trump’s announcement about withdrawing U.S. forces from Germany actually mean in terms of the U.S. defense posture in Europe? Little to nothing, for two reasons.
Preparing for the Post-COVID-19 Land Grab
In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008, the tell-tale “We buy homes” signs started going up at seemingly every corner of Atlanta. They promised quick cash during a hard time. What wasn’t clear at first was the true cost of that cash — not just losing one’s home, but entire neighborhoods, to unseen buyers looking to flip homes on a scale never seen before. By 2019, according to a Governing analysis, over 47 percent of Atlanta’s census tracts had gentrified.
John Haines: Alaska’s poet laureate
Poetry 0 By John Haines, Dec. 20, 2019 Fairbanks Under the Solstice Slowly, without sun, the day sinks toward the close of December. It is minus sixty degrees. Over the sleeping houses a dense fog rises—smoke from banked fires, and the snowy breath of an abyss through which the cold town is perceptibly falling. As if Death were a voice made visible, with the power of illumination...
Will Alexandar Vučić’s Presidency Explode? Botched Agent Running, Corruption Allegations Imperil Putin’s Balkan Ally
In this pressure cooker, in which the sour broth of our current history boils, the current government has not even left a safety valve open to reduce the growing pressure. That’s why an explosion is the logical progression of events, after which it will be difficult to pick up the pieces of what used to be our country.[1] – NIN[2] December 2019 I don’t care about the world stage. I care about Serbia and the Balkans.
Blast from the Past / 1953: Kid brother airlift
Submitted by John Haines In this 1953 photo, Jim Haines of Clarkston demonstrates a feat of strength as he uses just one arm to lift his little brother, John Haines, high in the air. The photo was taken at their parents’ Clarkston home when John was about 8 years old. Jim is about 15 years older, and was back home after serving in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He celebrates his 89th birthday this month.
The legend by John Haines
I understand the story of Gilgamesh, of Enkidu, who called the wind by name, who drank at the pool of silence, kneeling in the sunburnt shallows with all four-footed creatures. I know the name of that exile, the form that it takes within us: the parting and breaking of things, the distance and anguish. I know too, in its utter strangeness, that whoever asks of the sun its rising, of the night its moonstruck depths, stirs the envy of God in his lofty cabin.
Star photo by John Haines
You are here, in this country of diminishing returns, on this patient rock slowly cooling in a cloud. This is your country, the only one you can claim; yet it is no country, no land, but an eddy of dust in the holocaustal wind. Think of a city growing distant in the night below you the bridgelights winking, traffic no more than a fiery ribbon, as the aircraft lifts away and the clouds close in.
The telling by John Haines
?There is one and only one ? So was your fortune told, as the palm reader scanned the past, the present and future, and then went on in the telling of an inexplicable journey. I see lines that cross, that travel together and seem to part again. I see a large flock of birds circling a single figure, and somewhere nearby a small burial is taking place, with the sound of dirt hitting a cardboard box. And once more the lines converge, are thickened with grieving and unexplained departures.
John Haines: Kind deserves support for aiding veterans
With the upcoming primary, I would feel remiss if I didn’t share with my fellow veterans the work I have done with Kind's staff on veterans issues. I can speak from experience as a veteran. Kind is on the side of veterans. He has shown me a deep concern for the welfare of all vets, the ones from the past, and the ones that are returning today. I have been to his office, in Washington several times and his entire staff takes veteran issues very seriously.
JOHN HAINES - Star Beacon: Death Notices
Arrangements by Burr Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Chardon. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Burr Funeral Home, 116 South St., Chardon, Ohio. Memorial service will be 7 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home. MUNSON TOWNSHIP — John “Jack” Haines, 85, of Munson Township, Ohio, died Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, at his home. A veteran, he served our country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. With your existing account from...
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