Hi, I'm Penny Swanson, and I'm a dual graduate of Grand Valley State University, with a B.A. in History and a Masters in Educational Administration. Grand Valley has given me the...

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Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!...
Vegetarian Physics The tofu that's shown up overnight in this house is frightening proof of the Law of Conservation. Matter that simply cannot be created or destroyed. Matter older than...
The Bones of My Father By Etheridge Knight There are no dry bones here in this valley. The skull of my father grins at the Mississippi moon from the bottom of the Tallahatchie, the bones of my father...
Poem with One Fact BY DONALD HALL "At pet stores in Detroit, you can buy frozen rats for seventy-five cents apiece, to feed your pet boa constrictor" back home in Grosse Pointe, or...

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I Am the People, the Mob By Carl Sandburg I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker...
[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] By E. E. Cummings i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is...
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg By Richard Hugo You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was years ago. You walk these streets laid out by the insane,...

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Buick By Karl Shapiro As a sloop with a sweep of immaculate wing on her delicate spine And a keel as steel as a root that holds in the sea as she leans, Leaning and laughing, my warm-hearted beauty,...
We all know what it's like to sit in chairs during a class. It can be uncomfortable, maybe a bit too sedentary, or maybe it's so comfy students become drowsy. What if you had to...