These days are brim full of bad news about our economy—businesses closing, people losing their houses, their jobs. If there’s any comfort in a situation like this, it’s in the fact that there’s a big community of sufferers. Here’s a poem by Dana Bisignani, who lives in Indiana, that describes what it feels like to sit through a bankruptcy hearing.
Maple Valley Creative Arts Center upcoming events
Heavier Than Air Family Theater, Green River Community College’s resident community theater, will hold open auditions for an upcoming production of Rodger and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella”.
Kentlake seniors competed in the Boyd Coffee ProStart Invitational March 13 at South Seattle Community College.
The team captain was Zac Coltes and the team members included
Michael McCamey, Bonnie Chow and Brian Currington.
Running an art gallery is nothing new to Susie Teierle.
Prior to moving to Maple Valley from Spokane five years ago to be with her husband, Teierle who is an artist in her own right, ran a gallery in her hometown.
Wisconsin writer Freya Manfred is not only a fine poet but the daughter of the late Frederick Manfred, a distinguished novelist of the American west. Here is a lovely snapshot of her father, whom I cherished among my good friends.
The Cascade Jazz Quintet performed at the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center Saturday evening.
The group played a blend of standards including “Body and Soul” and “Masquerade” and original compositions, all very well performed.
The Tahoma Drama Club is presenting a production of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella showcasing local youth talent.
The shows times are 7 p.m. Friday, March 5; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 6; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, March 12 and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 13 at Tahoma Middle School Theatre, 24425 SE 216th, Maple Valley.
The Maple Valley/Covington Reporter has opened up an Oscar Awards contest.
Kentwood High’s cheer squads continued their success both at the state and national levels in the past two months.
At the WIAA State Cheerleading Championships Jan. 23, Kentwood’s Green team took third in the non-tumbling division, while the Black squad won the medium varsity division and the top tier squad, Silver, won the state title in the small co-ed division.
This marks the fourth time we’ve published a poem by David Baker, one of my favorite writers. Baker lives in Granville, Ohio, and teaches at Denison University. He is also the poetry editor for the distinguished Kenyon Review.
Covington Elementary celebrated Heritage Night Feb. 25. The event featured an array of activities including mask and hat making and a variety of food.
The Cascade Jazz Quintet will be performing at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 6 at the Creative Arts Center, 23220 Maple Valley Highway SE, Suite 15, Maple Valley.
Grant Hayes found a way to help the people of Haiti following the devastation from a massive earthquake Jan. 12 despite a number of roadblocks he encountered along the way.
True love and other disasters by Rachel Gibson You can marry a rich man, as easy as marrying a poor…
Often when I dig some change out of my jeans pocket to pay somebody for something, the pennies and nickels…
The Maple Valley Creative Arts Council presented a Valentine Calligraphy Rotation highlighting the work of Sally Penley Feb. 12 at the arts center.
Ginger “Mama” Passarelli won a spaghetti throw down Monday at her Black Diamond restaurant over Tom Kasper. Passarelli donated a $1,000 spaghetti feed dinner for 30 at the November Maple Valley Rotary auction and Kelly Snodgrass was the winner.
A poem is an experience like any other, and we can learn as much or more about, say, an apple from a poem about an apple as from the apple itself. Since I was a boy, I’ve been picking up things, but I’ve never found a turtle shell until I found one in this poem by Jeff Worley, who lives in Kentucky.
A honeymoon. How often does one happen according to the dreams that preceded it? In this poem, Wesley McNair, a poet from Maine, describes a first night of marriage in a tawdry place. But all’s well that ends well.
