Herm Card is the City Eagle's roving street reporter and photographer as well as the Eagle's Poetry Editor.
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He is an English teacher, poet, educational consultant, and motivational speaker. He has been a college baseball player and coach, military officer, tournament squash player and NCAA baseball umpire. He is also a Museum Educator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and co-editor of the academic journal, "The English Record."
Almost every day, my friend Kevin and I walk our dogs, Molly and Cooper, in Onondaga Park. During the time it takes us to travel the 2 ˝ miles, we do our best to solve as many state, regional and local problems as possible. While our particular area of expertise is baseball, we have working knowledge of politics, economics, education and pretty much any issue that we can focus on in the hour or so we walk...
So, now that it is National Poetry Month, what do we do about it?
hcard, City Muse
We are celebrating National Poetry Month, created by the Academy of American Poets in 1996.
Although we should celebrate poetry all year, this month provides us an opportunity to focus on it. April, a month by nature no more poetic than any other, does provide a transition from one season to another, as poetry my provide a transition from one sense to another, from one awareness to another, from one mood to another...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s 20th century color barrier making his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers. In so doing, he opened the doors for African Americans – not only in baseball, but in American society. His number 42 has been retired by all major league teams since 1997, with only Mariano Rivera still wearing it, until he retires...
