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City Muse

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."

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Submit your poetry to Herm at eaglepoetry@aol.com

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Jul

Stop me if I have said this before

hcard, City Muse

A lot of people have said, “I don’t like poetry because I don’t get it.” The same thing could be said about a lot of things, and I must plead guilty to having said it myself at times. There are a lot of things that I don’t get. I don’t “get” Picasso. I don’t “get” Mozart. I don’t “get” the Tour de France. But, I can appreciate them for what they are.

I can look at a Picasso and take a certain amount of enjoyment in wondering why he put the nose on the side of her head. I can listen to Mozart and enjoy the rhythm and beauty of the orchestra’s rendering. I can watch the Tour de France on TV and be awed by the strength and endurance of the athletes.

So it is with poetry. There is no need to understand it in the academic sense...

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Jul

Poet to read at Contemporary

hcard, City Muse

Recently we have focused on publishing poetry. This week we’ll take a look at another approach, one involving local poet Lenore (Lenny) Decerce.

Decerce is a graduate of Le Moyne College, a convert from the psychology program to the English program with an emphasis on creative writing, specifically, poetry.

“It’s always been poetry — writing, collecting the strongest pieces and seeing what you can do with it,” she said.

On July 24, Decerce will unveil her manuscript, “Leaning against the bed with one knee” at a launch party, from 7 to 10 p.m. at Contemporary Gallery, 230 Harrison St. in downtown Syracuse. This is an “arts friendly” gallery recently opened by Courtney Rile and Roslyn Esperon...

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TAGS: Contmeporary gallery,downtown syracuse, poetry,card,Lenore (Lenny) Decerce

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