Margaret Ackerman News Today

In 1968, Margaret Ackerman of the University of Arizona authored a paper for The English Journal in which she included a summary of what poetry meant to most of her students: “sentimentality, effeminacy, pretentious diction, circumlocution, and obscurity.” Fifty-five years later, I feel poetry gets the same bad rap.  That’s a shame because, as Ackerman...

Fundraisers • Mt. Pleasant Church of God will host a Fair Trade Marketplace from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 1 and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 2 at the church, 936 W. Main St. There will be more than 20 vendors, music and free coffee and doughnuts. Admission is

Art • The Greensburg Art Center will sponsor a bus trip Dec. 14 to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Special exhibits will include Sargent and Spain, Vermeer’s Secrets of Venice and Capaccio’s Italian Art. The bus will leave at 5:30 a.m. from the art center, arrive at

After a shooting of many innocent people, innocent children, we pray; then another and another massacre, and we pray, as we should. But prayer is not enough. I believe that we are given choices to make, making the wrong ones; we then punish ourselves. We need to take responsibility with