This eclectic mix of poetry covers a wide variety of topics from poet Don McIver. Serious issues like religion, personal tragedy, hypocrisy, unsuccessful careers, failed relationships, and homelessness mix with the not-so-serious topics of golf, cars, "Star Wars," and macaroni to contribute to McIver's quest for self-discovery.
"The Noisy Pen" clearly shows why McIver was voted as runner-up for the 'Best Spoken Word Artist" in 1999 by readers of "The Alibi" and was chosen as one of the '40 under 40" by "The New Mexico Business Weekly."
'McIver's work works. When you have a leak you call...
This eclectic mix of poetry covers a wide variety of topics from poet Don McIver. Serious issues like religion, personal tragedy, hypocrisy, unsuccess...
Sixty people died in 1857, leaving behind their stories and the tales of those involved.
In 1857, the Desjardins Canal bridge collapsed under a Toronto-to-Hamilton train, creating one of the worst railway wrecks in North American history. Sixty lives, including that of the main contractor, were lost. The story of how the Great Western Railway was conceived, where it was located, and how it was constructed is replete with high irony covering political intrigue, commercial skullduggery, and bold entrepreneurship. Woven into the tragic events of that cold March evening are a...
Sixty people died in 1857, leaving behind their stories and the tales of those involved.
![A Bigger Boat: The Unlikely Success of the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene [With CD] McAllister, Susan 9780826344830 University of New Mexico Press](/9780826344830_a_bigger_boat_the_unlikely_success_of_the_albuquerque_poetry_slam_scene_with_cd.jpg "A Bigger Boat: The Unlikely Success of the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene [With CD]")
