http://wmuk.org en http://wmuk.org/post/small-town-poets-kalamazoo-natives-hold-reading <blockquote><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; display: inline !important;">&nbsp;</span>Red-winged and loud my field this morning suddenly full of them. Clinging to mullen stalks and singing from the snow-battered stems of field grass, the gray skeletons of poke. Everyway I look there’s no escape from blackbirds, shaking the air with their sirens, flashing their wing-bars like warnings. Get ready your heart, here comes Spring - "I Asked For A Poem, But Got Blackbirds" by Amy Newday</p></blockquote><p> Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:06:15 +0000 Lorraine Caron 3801 at http://wmuk.org Small town poets, Kalamazoo natives hold a reading http://wmuk.org/post/diversity-art-contest-paints-picture-world-peace <p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">The contest only has one rule: you have to tell the judges how your art shows diversity.&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">In <a href="http://www.kellogg.edu/">Kellogg Community College</a> student Brandi Smith’s drawing, bird-like people sit gracefully on clouds.</span></p><p> Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:21:04 +0000 Rebecca Thiele 1870 at http://wmuk.org Diversity Art Contest paints a picture of world peace