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    “The Broken Poem” by John Berry

    September 1, 2022 /

    How God, Gravity, Silence, and Darkness whipped the universe into shape over the course of a few billion forevers ...

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    “Watoga 2021” by James Cochran

    September 1, 2022 /

    ‘Somewhere between Anhedonia and Ataraxy / we drive east on the turnpike in torrential / downpour, passing old man in rusted sedan / with driver's window down completely. / Is it broken, or is he just looking to feel something? …’

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    VIDEOGRAPHIC POEMS: 3 to Go

    September 1, 2022 /

    You might call it video poetry, but how about the more colorful coinage of 'videographic poetry.' Some examples of animated poetics from TheStoryIsTheThing.com series "Poems To Go."

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    “Fiery Thoughts” by Douglas John Imbrogno

    September 1, 2022 /

    ‘I am a devoted householder / & secret reprobate. / I am an insomniac & / daring dreamer. / I am eternal & / dying as we speak. / I am a teller of truths / & serial liar, too …’

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    INDEX: A guide to the August 2022 issue of WestVirginiaVille.com

    August 9, 2022 /

    Here's a linked guide to all the articles, essays, videos, and photographs in the August 2022 edition of WestVirginiaVille.com

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    EDITORS/NOTE: About our August 2022 Issue from legislators to Lost River, thistles to abortion bans

    August 9, 2022 /

    In the midst of all the normal chaos of American and West Virginian political life, some good news breaks out. Plus, some worthy tales from worthy lives around the state. An overview of WestVirginiaVille's August 2022 edition.

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    EDITOR/IAL: Score one — a big one — for Manchin

    August 9, 2022 /

    The Earth wins one (with some important caveats) as Joe Manchin finally steps up and does right by the Biden administration's grand climate hopes. It's not everything, but it is a serious something.

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    FIRST/PERSON: Why I Have Four First Names

    August 9, 2022 /

    "They were both the most cussed, stubborn people you’d ever meet, my Dad and Mom, when they come together over something that stood them apart. “Both would not give up their position on the proper naming of you,” said K. “So, they agreed to disagree. And gave you all four names.”

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    ‘KEEP THE DOOR CLOSED’: Inside the chaotic week when West Virginia Republicans’ efforts to ban abortion stalled

    August 9, 2022 /

    “I can’t hear,” Senate President Craig Blair repeated from his dais. The body had just passed a bill that would ban nearly all abortions in West Virginia. The remaining pro-abortion rights protesters had packed themselves into the hallway beside the chamber in their 10th straight hour of demonstrations. “No justice! No peace!”

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  • First/Person,  Stories

    FIRST/PERSON: ‘A Wild Woman Love Story’

    August 9, 2022 /

    Once upon a time, a round-faced girl with curly hair and identity issues was told by someone (that genuinely loved her) that she was not "model pretty" like her sister but that she could be "mother pretty" ...

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    PICTURE/SHOW: A West Virginia Walkabout from Elkins to Lost River

    August 9, 2022 /

    If you could use a West Virginia roadtrip, here's a vicarious one, traversing from Elkins to Lost River. You'll cover lots of ground. From August Heritage Center jamming at Davis & Elkins College, to the soothing solitude of Kimsey Run Lake in Lost River.

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  • Nature,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    ONE/PHOTO: What the thistle tells

    August 9, 2022 /

    'the ants quickly took to the milk thistle this year. her bloom doesn’t last long. maybe two days. they seem to be in sync with this knowing, almost as if there is a pulse they can feel when she begins her bloom.'

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  • Characters,  Poetics,  Stories

    PASSINGS: Recalling the ironic, sardonic, compassionate writings of PJ Laska

    August 9, 2022 /

    "It would be impossible for me to do justice either to his writing or to his intellectual prowess. But I will say, as a man, he always sought to share what he knew and never once came across as anything other than a person who could learn from any and everyone ..."

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    CHARACTERS | The One-Armed Bandit of No. 1 Holler, West Virginia

    August 9, 2022 /

    The story of the "The One-Armed Bandit" is the stuff of heroes and legends. You may not know Gary Mays' tale, however, as the major league career the West Virginia native might have had may have been blocked by racism. Yet nothing ever kept Gary down for long. | By Douglas John Imbrogno, reprint of 2016 Charleston Gazette story

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  • Music/Video,  Nature,  Photos/Video

    VIDEO: “WATER/CLOUD/WIND/LEAF: A Hoeft Marsh Melody”

    July 19, 2022 /

    Hoeft Marsh in Greenbottom WV is where I go when I want to get off the timeline of the world's news. Here's a short, lyrical visit there. It's a little fishy, at the end.

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  • Climate,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    10 Things to Say About Joe Manchin After He Kills Off Biden’s Climate Initiatives for Good

    July 15, 2022 /

    Has WV Sen. Joe Manchin finally locked his legacy into place as the guy who doomed the planet to an existential climate crisis just because he could?

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  • Stories

    INDEX: For ‘Memoirs of Daily Life” Issue, July 1, 2022

    July 1, 2022 /

    Here is the lineup of stories, articles, imagery and more in the July 2022 special edition of WestVirginiaVille on the theme of "Memoirs of Daily Life"

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  • Editors/Notes,  Stories

    EDITORS/NOTE: About our ‘Memoirs of Daily Life’ Issue

    July 1, 2022 /

    to devote so many pages and pixels to writers, poets, and memoirists, who issue dispatches from the front lines of their lives or the imagined lives of characters, is not to take a step away from Important Things and Essential Matters. At their best, poetry and prose are no less a form of truth-telling ...

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  • Essay,  Stories

    FIRST/PERSON: A Turtle Rescue Out on Pluto Road

    July 1, 2022 /

    "The first time I tried to save a turtle on the move it peed — or pooped, I’m not sure which — in my truck. I had stopped when I saw a box turtle in the middle of Pluto Road one afternoon maybe ten years ago. I hit my brakes right there in traffic ....

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  • Poetics,  Stories

    Five Questions for Two Poets Who Keep Running With Whiskey

    July 1, 2022 /

    How did West Virginia's longtime Poet Laureate plus an MFA Creative Writing professor-poet-musician end up "Running With Whiskey" around West Virginia and the world? We have questions, they have answers. Plus, of course, poems.

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