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Listen 51 min MORE Convent Mesa, aka The Convent near Moab and Castle Valley, Utah. Annotations for The Rectory and Castleton Tower. Photo by Ron Clausen (Wikicommons). Activist, conservationist and acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams says that she could only make sense of this past year by returning to her gift: putting words to the page. She’s been writing through the pandemic, and looking for beauty where there often is none to be found. In her quest to use language and stories to alleviate a broken heart, she beli...

Would let prosecutors seek stricter sentences for crimes that leave life-long injuries SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – House Republican Deputy Leader Daniel Bonham (R-The Dalles), Senate Republican Assistant Leader Lynn Findley (R-Vale) and voices for the victims of quality-of-life crimes gathered virtually Tuesday to introduce House Bill 2339, also known as Ezra’s Law, in a public hearing before the House Committee on Judiciary. Together, they offered their unwavering support for the legislation on the grounds that current sentencing procedures are not suitably severe for offenders who rob victim...

It’s the season of giving, but that’s not why poet, writer, and artist Beverly Finney of Hickory has been stealthily distributing free poems. The Catawba County native’s been doing it “to encourage each other to remember our shared humanity,” she explained. 2020 has been — and continues to be — a tough one. Beverly’s hopeful her inspiring poems will help women and men “recognize the human experience,” as Beverly called the basis of all her writing. “We all have fears, hopes, dreams, angers, mistakes, and our successes,” she poi...

Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence North Carolina poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green 2021 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence Readings The week will include two public events—a panel on Environmental Justice and a conversation moderated by Gene Nichol, class visits by each writer, a community outreach with a local high school and a writing session with UNC creative writing students, and a celebratory dinner. Monday, Feb 22: CHANGE: Due to weather conditions and travel, Rev. William Barber II will not be able to attend our reading tonight. We look forward to a reading and Q&A with North Caroli...

Day was -- it was an honor to be able to serve the city like that. >> at a time of such need. >> absolutely. i take the events of that day very personal. this was an attack on my city, and i'll never forget it. >> is it hard to think about it one year later, to go through it again? >> i think we're all ready. i think we need to be there this year to return to some form of normal normalcy, and i think we'll do okay. >> it's interesting, doris, former u.s. poet laureate robert pinsky wrote last year, boston will endure, the marathon will endure, we will celebrate again as we remember, but to som...