Members of the Mercersburg men's cross country team gather at the Mercersburg Invitational for a quick snapshot.
November 30, 2007 10:00 PM
Full Court Press
With roughly three and a half weeks between thanksgiving break and winter break, a lot must get done. One might think that after the end of the fall term as the year settles into a rhythm, the level of intensity would settle too. However, because the marking period is truncated by breaks and it is (relatively speaking) a generally busy season after all, the school begins the winter term at a hum.
November 6, 2007 10:00 PM
It's Difficult to Get News From Poems
William Carlos Williams said, "It is difficult to get news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there--" We often are inundated with the prosaic elements of the world; the informational, we get enough of--the poetic, not nearly enough. I want to say, however, that poetry has a place here at Mercersburg, and, in that place, it is vibrant and relevant.
Over the last several weeks of the first term, the students in Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing have been focusing their efforts on the craft of poetry. As they have moved from poem to poem, they have been compiling enough pieces to comprise the semblance of a small manuscript. In fact, last evening they gave a poetry reading in the Hale Studio Theater where each student read three poems each from their manuscripts. It was a stunning performance to say the least. I wanted to share a few poems from one of the more quotable manuscripts.
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