Katrina Resources

Here are a few resources to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina:

Catholic Charities, USA

America's Second Harvest

Convoy of Hope

Humane Society of the United States

All of these organizations are providing relief assistance directly to the Katrina affected areas.
Katrina

KC Metro Verse meeting At WriterHouse

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KC Metro Verse met last night at the new WriterHouse in Kansas City.

WriterHouse was opened by Pat Berge, a creative writing instructor at Maple Woods Community College, Kansas City, Missouri. Pat has taught fiction writing at Columbia College Chicago.
She also conducts writing workshops.

Seated left to right is Missi Rasmussen - Metro Verse President, Amy Davis and Pat Berge.

Roles

The struggle isn’t quite so perilous
A sort of foreplay choreographed
To uninhibited pandemonium.

Your heavy sighs a concerto.
It is like you always want to lose
And only play along for the sport.

I wonder myself what it would be like to
Succumb to subjugation under your coercion
And watch how you deal with conquest.

Deep in the Heart of Crawford - A Must Read

Let me recommend Deep In The Heart Of Crawford over at Love During Wartime. Thanks James, for pointing us to the Wallace piece. His message is definitely thought provoking especially being of the Vietnam generation.

Special Delivery

Congratulations are in order to Deborah Ager of 32 poems on the arrival of Olive Cameron Ager Beverly!

What is the point of worry...

"For Christ sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece or what. I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit."
~ Ernest Hemingway

Chardonnay

Hint
Of ripe
Pear and toasted

Oak
Blended to
Rich textured finish