We got a post card from Finishing Line Press (www.finishinglinepress.com) that announced the publication of John Estes’ (Jennifer’s husband) first book of poetry. You can find it in the new releases section on the website. I’d be interested to hear what you know about the press, Shotts. I’m going to order a copy. I’d also [...]
Posted on August 4th, 2007 by Ned
Filed under: Books, Hollow Men, Poetry | 3 Comments »
I’m writing this post from my new office at Macalester College. It feels right now rather incredible to be here, even just for one semester, teaching one class. And it’s exciting and a little daunting to have an office in the department and the building where I used to take classes myself, meet with professors [...]
Posted on August 3rd, 2007 by Shotts
Filed under: Art, Autumn, Informational, News, Nostalgia | 7 Comments »
Jerry has taken a bit of a bad turn in the last couple of days. He has pneumonia an infection. Also, the pain from the surgery has been difficult to manage since the staff don’t want him on narcotics when he has pneumonia. J.E. is en route to St. Louis for an unknown amount of [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by Liz
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Just a quick post this morning from Minneapolis. Front page news everywhere is the bridge collapse of I-35W in downtown–four confirmed dead, sixty injured, and twenty still missing, as of this writing. A very sad scene here. Jen and I and our friends and family are all accounted for, though it’s hard to call that [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by Shotts
Filed under: Hollow Men | 4 Comments »