Summer Art

Summer Art

There are plenty of ways to tell we’re on the cusp of summer in the Valley. There are the many shades of green, the blooms bursting into view, and the green clouds of marauding pollen. Among the most reliable ways to note that Memorial Day is about to arrive to...
The New Chairman

The New Chairman

About a year ago, I gained temporary possession of a chair. The thing was apparently full of weighty significance, stuffed with metaphors and bursting with prosody. The Poet’s Seat poetry contest awards the chair annually to a Franklin County poet via blindly judged...