November 23, 2024 4:37 pm

LANCE HENSON, CHEYENNE POET – POEMS

He is Cheyenne, Oglala and French. He served in the U. S. Marine Corps after high school, during the Vietnam War, and is a graduate of Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts in Chickasha. He was born in Washington, D. C. in 1944. He was raised on a farm near Calumet, Oklahoma by his great aunt and uncle, Bertha and Bob …

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BROKEN APRIL – Romance by Ismail Kadare

He is a writer, essayist, poet and writer born in a southern city of Albania, who graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana. At first he devoted himself to poetry, but in 1963 he wrote his first novel. In 1990 to express their disapproval of the immobility of the Albanian Communist leadership, he requested …

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13 DAYS TO GLORY – Novel by Lon Tinkle

He was born on March day, in Dallas. His career as a writer and teacher spanned fifty-four years, beginning in 1942. He is best known for his books (especially those which focused on younger readers), as Thirteen Days to Glory /The Siege of the Alamo, The Cowboy Reader and The Key to Dallas. He was a member of the Philosophical …

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HEAVEN MELT THE RIME, OVER TEXAS

TOPOGRAPHY – Poetry by Sharon Olds After we flew across the country we got in bed, laid our bodies delicately together, like maps laid face to face, East to West, my San Francisco against your New York, your Fire Island against my Sonoma, my New Orleans deep in your Texas, your Idaho bright on my Great Lakes, my Kansas burning …

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ON THE ROADS OF TEXAS – Where Heaven, sometimes has the color of rust

Big Bend National Park is on the border between the US and Mexico, a fantastic nature reserve consists of 90% desert. Beautiful landscapes are in every corner of this park through the Chisos Mountains, but we have not made this long detour south, preferring to get back in Texas at another time, devoting time and enthusiasm to the visit of …

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TEXAS SONGS

Cadillac Ranch – Bruce Springsteen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoTjkeoyr1E Ain’t No Honky Tonks in Jail – Texas American Country Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVI-SRgGz9w Texas Country MusicMix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVb8aYa68iY Austin Texas – Live Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvkKgeYQls Slaid Cleaves – Texas Love Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0rkzQzEScg

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