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Around the state, libraries are participating in a program that will allow residents and library patrons to check out a three-day South Dakota state park pass to visit a state park. It's program between the state's Game Fish and Parks and the state's library system. ....
Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin, 2019. Still from YouTube, Wikimedia Commons By Jonah Raskin | SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. English Department purists might complain that Tongo Eisen-Martin doesn’t write “real” poems, that is poems about birds and flowers, and thus shouldn’t be featured this year during National Poetry Month, which as always falls in April. Eisen-Martin’s first book, someone’s dead already, was published by Bootstrap Press. His second, Heaven Is All Goodbyes ($11.17) was published by City Lights in its venerable Pocket Poets Series. Tongo’s brother Biko, an artist and an actor, designed the cover. The first poem in the volume is titled, “Faceless.” The last is titled “The Oldest Then the Youngest,” and begins, “Grandmother, why don’t you ever talk about your children who the first world murdered?” The grandmother replies, “Because, son, I haven’t run out of knife handles.” ....