Download or read book Indiana Hill Country Poems written by Norbert Krapf and published by DOS Madres Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poetry. Community history, natural history, and personal history of the author's life in Indiana hill country"--

Download or read book Southwest by Midwest written by Norbert Krapf and published by DOS Madres Press. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Native American Studies. "From the first poem in SOUTHWEST BY MIDWEST, 'Prolog: The Pot Taking Shape" to the last, 'Epilog: At the Center of the Circle, ' former Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf weaves a delicate, prescient tale of New Mexican and Arizonian indigenous aesthetics and poetry, its artists and the universe in clear, gentle and tactile language. Krapf shows not only a literary prowess but a consideration for cultural nuances not his own. With the last lines of his last poem, 'You too make love and music / that can save us all. You too / live and breathe at the center, ' he connects us back to the beginning: to language and ourselves. A beautiful book."--Shonda Buchanan

Download or read book Hill Country and Other Poems written by Fixin' to Press and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ida Hagan of the Pinkston Freedom Settlement written by Norbert Krapf and published by NCSA Literatur. This book was released on 2024-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I grew up in Jasper, in Dubois County, I had never heard of a Pinkston Settlement. Nor had anyone else of my generation. It is still not widely known about, even in our time. Ida Hagan's father, Ben Hagan Jr., was the last Black buried in Pinkston Cemetery, in 1939. IIt's high time the impressive story of this woman is told in a book of narrative poems, my favorite way to tell stories for some fifty plus years of writing and publishing. But you will also find more than a few lyrical moments. If you have not met Ida Hagan, just as I had not growing up in the area in which she was born and worked for a Swiss Doctor Wollenmann in German-Catholic Ferdinand, she may surprise you. Ferdinand is not far from little German-Catholic St. Henry, where my father was born in 1904. I will not repeat the story of the most impressive Ida Hagan here, because I tell it in detail in the book you are holding. I will, however, tell you that Ida was born in 1888 in Huntingburg, Indiana, where she attended high school after finishing "common" or elementary school, in a country school. After Doctor Wollenmann died in 2012, Ida moved away from Dubois County, lived with her first husband and worked as a pharmacist in Indianapolis, where in 1926 she married a second time, and moved with her new husband to Detroit, where she lived until 1978. I believe in learning about Ida you will be surprised, as I was, and probably, also like me, be amazed and gratified that you came to learn about such an impressive woman. Like me, you may want to learn more about Ida. Perhaps, like me, you will also regret that you were not lucky enough to meet and spend time with her. You may want to share Ida's story with friends.

Download or read book Hill Country written by Sabrina Elise Barnett and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Indianapolis Anthology written by Norman Minnick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of essays & poetry offering a reconsideration of one of America’s most misunderstood cities. Is Indianapolis just another midwestern city to fly over on the way to bigger and better destinations? Or is it, as locals know, a place where different peoples and ideals converge to create a rich cultural center? The Indianapolis Anthology showcases Naptown’s vibrancy and diversity with pieces from journalists, poets, historians, established community voices, and first-time writers. The Circle City is more than the home of the Indianapolis 500, John Dillinger, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Kurt Vonnegut, Prozac, and Wonder Bread. In these pages, you’ll find: · lawn chairs in the beds of pick-ups · Punk rock in Naptown · suffragists and entrepreneurs · cement pietàs · dog bakeries and yoga studios · red brick bungalows and war memorials · steakburgers and Mexican seafood; pho and sauerbraten · and more In other words, you'll find images from a city that is truly a cross section of today’s America. Edited by Norman “Buzz” Minnick and with contributions from Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes, Michael Martone, and Karen Kovacik. An insiders’ look that will make you see a great midwestern city in a brand-new light.

Download or read book Spirit Sister Dance written by Norbert Krapf and published by Fernwood Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, Norbert Krapf has been working on a collection of poems that tell the story of his stillborn sister and the effect she has had on him and on his family, as well as the spiritual journey he has been on since then. This book, Spirit Sister Dance, is that collection.

Download or read book An Indiana Christmas written by Bryan Furuness and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a moonlit railroad track, a rural road and barn covered with just a dusting of snow, a hound dog asleep by the woodstove, and a Red Ryder BB gun hidden behind the tinseled tree—all the makings of an unforgettable Indiana Christmas. In An Indiana Christmas, editor Bryan Furuness brings together timeless short stories, poems, plays, and letters to help you get into the holiday spirit. Lose yourself in classics like "In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash" by Jean Shepherd, which inspired the beloved movie A Christmas Story, and "A Feel in the Christmas Air" by James Whitcomb Riley, along with more recent literary works like "The Myth of the Perfect Christmas Photo Family" by Kelsey Timmerman and "While Mortals Sleep" by famed Indiana writer Kurt Vonnegut. To achieve the perfect combination of Christmas nostalgia and cheer, Furuness has curated Hoosier stories that allow you to experience an idyllic holiday gathering in "Indiana Winter" by Susan Neville, feel the excitement of a child on Christmas Eve with "Earthbound" by Barbara Shoup, and face the loneliness of a drifter on Christmas night in "Howard Garfield, Balladeer" by Edward Porter. The collection even offers the chance to read a Christmas war dispatch from the late, great Hoosier journalist Ernie Pyle. Heartfelt and unique, An Indiana Christmas paints a picture of what Hoosiers truly hold dear. Family, love, giving, hope, and faith shine through these poignant stories, which are sure to put you in good spirits for the holidays.

Download or read book Songs in Sepia and Black and White written by Norbert Krapf and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collaboration born of a shared love of music, photography, poetry, and Indiana, this book celebrates the history, literature, and art that informs the present and shapes our identity. Richard Fields's black and white photos are evocative imaginings of Norbert Krapf's poems, visual metaphors that extend and deepen their vision. Krapf's poems pay tribute to poets from Homer and Virgil to Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Wendell Berry, and to singer-songwriters such as Woody Guthrie and John Lennon. They also explore the poet's German heritage, question ethnic prejudice and social conflict, and praise the natural world. The book includes a cycle of 15 poems about Bob Dylan; a public poem written in response to 9/11, "Prayer to Walt Whitman at Ground Zero"; "Back Home," a poem reproduced in a stained glass panel at the Indianapolis airport; and ruminations on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, "Questions on a Wall."

Download or read book A Flame Called Indiana written by Doug Paul Case and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Kurt Vonnegut, Indiana's most famous writer, once remarked, "Wherever you go, there is always a Hoosier doing something important there." A Flame Called Indiana features 65 writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have all had the pleasure of being Hoosiers at one time or another. Curated by the Indiana University Bloomington creative writing department, this diverse anthology features everything from the immigrant experience to the Indianapolis 500 to science fiction. Altogether, the work stands testament to the vibrancy and creativity of this Midwest state. An excellent gift for your favorite reader and an important resource for creative writers, A Flame Called Indiana serves as both a chronicle of where Indiana's writing is today and a beacon to those who'll take it where it's going next.

Download or read book Hill Country and Other Poems written by Alexander John Cody and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lincoln Reflections written by Jack Barnett Haskins and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack B. Haskins is a native Hoosier, born in 1929 in Pike County. He is the seventh son of Byron and Bessie Capehart Haskins and the last survivor of the brothers. Educated in Pike and Daviess counties, he has degrees from Greenville College, Indiana State University, and Southern Methodist University. He entered the Indiana Conference of the United Methodist Church in 1959 and retired in 1991, having served pastorates in central and southern Indiana. He was also a district superintendent of the Columbus District. He is married to Dolores Denbo; they have two children, Rebekah and Peter, and six grandchildren. This is his second book. The previous one, Garden Reflections, came out in 1981.

Download or read book The Country I Come from written by Norbert Krapf and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an exploration of family history, relationships between people of different ethnic backgrounds, nature, and the passage of time. This work is a collection of poems including Fire and Ice, Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany, A Whiff of Fresh Sheets, The Language of Place, One Voice From Many, and When the House Was New.

Download or read book Hill Country Poems to Delight written by Waneta Walker Mitchem and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hoosier Poems written by Gary Fiscus and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoosier Poems is a book about the life of the author as he lived in and around Bloomington, Ellettsville, Gosport, Stinesville, and Spencer, Indiana. Many of the verses are reflections on his early childhood. The barn on the front cover of this book depicts where he played, worked and grew up from 1946 to 1964. Other rhymes, such as memory epics in this volume, tell of his forty-seven-year preaching career, his forty-seven-year marriage to his wife Jane, and memories of rearing their family. Inspirational poems were written as the poet was inspired by a church service, a sunset, a roaring sea, or a calm pond.

Download or read book The Keeping written by Linda Neal Reising and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Keeping explores memories of childhood, the beauty of nature, and the strength of women.

Download or read book Songs in Sepia and Black White written by Norbert Krapf and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In these 101 poems Norbert Krapf explores the richness of his ancestry . . . a book that confirms Krapf’s status as one of America’s finest living poets.” —Benjamin Hedin, author of Under the Spell A collaboration born of a shared love of music, photography, poetry, and Indiana, this book celebrates the history, literature, and art that informs the present and shapes our identity. Richard Fields’s black and white photos are evocative imaginings of Norbert Krapf’s poems, visual metaphors that extend and deepen their vision. Krapf’s poems pay tribute to poets from Homer and Virgil to Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Wendell Berry, and to singer-songwriters such as Woody Guthrie and John Lennon. They also explore the poet’s German heritage, question ethnic prejudice and social conflict, and praise the natural world. The book includes a cycle of 15 poems about Bob Dylan; a public poem written in response to 9/11, “Prayer to Walt Whitman at Ground Zero”; “Back Home,” a poem reproduced in a stained glass panel at the Indianapolis airport; and ruminations on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, “Questions on a Wall.” “Pursuing a tri-fold creative concept that unites poetry, art in the form of photography, and music is certainly not a light challenge. Norbert Krapf has mastered it with remarkable virtuosity and once again reinforced his reputation as the pre-eminent German-American poet of the English language.” —Yearbook of German-American Studies “Some of Krapf’s poetry is breathtakingly moving. Most of it is very insightful . . . The way he joins history and emotion is wonderful.” —Englewood Review of Books