Poetic INSIGHT: Toledo's Poetry Renaissance
(Released October 14, 2010) - The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library’s Humanities department will feature an exhibition of never-before displayed letters, chapbooks and media materials titled, Poetic INSIGHT: 35th Anniversary of Toledo’s Poetry Renaissance on view now at Main Library, 325 Michigan St.
The award-winning Toledo Poets Center, started in the 1970s by poets and academics Joel Lipman and Nick Muska, published dozens of books, chapbooks and broadsides, principally by northwest Ohio poets, writers and photographers, also sponsoring nearly 200 poetry readings and serving as a vital hub for more than two decades for Toledo-area literary activity.
The exhibit is located in the Humanities Department, located on the first level of Main Library, and will be on display now through the end of December.
NOTE: For additional information visit toledolibrary.org, or call the Humanities Department at 419.259.5218.
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I once heard a wise man say, we do not inherit the earth from our parents we borrow it from our children.
The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom and humility goes before honor. So now we invoke the under current of winter as we wonder why they confuse power with death. Soul transports our world through the vacuum of day, not the human chemicals of propulsion that so many have mistaken Elohim for.
He was a boy when he shot those on Capitol Corner, not a political revolutionary. I am sure that he would love that glory label most fools do.
Now, I can feel our Fathers sadness in this cold and unprovoked hour. In a land not so far away from my own there are parents without, but America has a million daughters they say. Well, now, we leave one more in the shadow of yesterday.
And we must continue with the highway while Laughner escapes to the trench in his mind.
Unaware of the healing power of honest humility he now fights us in his delusion, but he can never win and the last laugh will never be ours. When he is forgotten to his cell and we are enjoying the festivities and privileges of citizenship we will still see the silhouette of that day.
We must show him mercy because he is a boy and when he realizes that we know this we will get through to him and touch his human soul.
We will see him cry. We will see him cry.