POETRY MONDAY: April 7, 2014

Howard-Stein

Howard Stein

Happy Poetry Month, everyone!   You who are readers of this column probably agree that every month should be poetry month, but we have to take whatever we can get.  Perhaps those of you who don’t always buy poetry books will think about a visit to your local independent bookstore, if you’re lucky enough to still have one, to look at the various slim new volumes on display as well as the collected and new / selected works of your old favorites.  If you do have a poetry library of your own, you might want to note the publishers’ names and then go online to look for their web pages and order directly from them.  This can be our way of celebrating what many of us cannot live without.

Our featured poet this month is Howard Stein, who is Poet Laureate of the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology.  He is a psychoanalytic, medical, organizational, and applied anthropologist, as well as a psychohistorian and organizational consultant – all of which disciplines inform and inspire Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 7, 2014

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THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014 | 7pm
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אַ חול-המועד-הוליאַנקע! פֿאַרברענגט אַן אָוונט פֿון ייִדישע פֿאָרשטעלונגען מיטן באַקאַנטן שטערן פֿון דער ייִדישער בינע שיין בייקער, מרים־חיה סגל, שיינדל ראָמיין און חנה טעמפּל, און ווײַזט אַרויס אײַער ייִדישן טאַלאַנט בײַ אונדזער טאַלאַנטאַרניע. ברענגט אײַערע מוזיקאַלישע אינסטרומענטן, אײַערע לידער, מאָנאָלאָגן, מאַניפֿעסטאָס, פֿילמען – אַלץ אויף ייִדיש. מע דאַרף זיך פֿאַרשרײַבן 7 אַ זייגער, די טאַלאַנטאַרניע הייבט זיך אָן 7:30.ו

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Military’s mental-health system faces shortage of providers, lack of good diagnostic tools

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Click Here to Read: Military’s mental-health system faces shortage of providers, lack of good diagnostic tools By Sandhya Somashekhar and Ellen Nakashima, in The Washington Post on  April 5, 2014.

General Mark Milley salutes at a memorial ceremony for U.S. military members at Fort Hood military base on Saturday, April 5, 2014Jahi Chikwendiu/Washington Post –