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How did Tina Chang become the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn? By writing the following words:
“I walk the streets of Brooklyn looking at this storefront and that, buy a pair of shoes I can’t afford, pumps from London, pointed at the tip and heartbreakingly high, hear my new heels clicking, crushing the legs of my shadow.”
Well, actually that is a mere sampling of her work taken from her poem Duality. There is so much more to choose from.
Rafaela Arrives
Fernanda Murta and Vaiceir Rangel of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Rafaela Murta Rangel, born on July 30, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Rafaela weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces at birth.
Welcome Lauren
Sarah and Jason Look of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Lauren Jane Look, born on July 22, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Lauren weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces at birth.
A seven-piece modular home was assembled with a lot of fanfare last week in Oak Bluffs. Bill Potter, a general contractor with Squash Meadow Construction Inc., got his friends together, held an open house on Thursday and began to share the story about how Bruce and Renee Balter got their new two-bedroom house.
Chickadees flit through the chicory as wrens weave through rugosa, and monarchs quake the milkweed with each tremor of their small wings. But this isn’t where the wild things are — rather, it’s Periwinkle Studio in the Arts District of Oak Bluffs.
Judy Drew Schubert, the owner, opened her gallery to the public three weeks ago, giving these creatures the gift of flight and of widespread appreciation.
“Hi, is this Tim Conway?”
“Depends. Are you a bill collector?”
Already I’m laughing over the telephone. The comedian, star of movies and two of television’s most successful series of all time — McHale’s Navy which aired in the 1960s, and the 1970s Carol Burnett Show — is most likely older than 25, but his lighthearted manner makes him sound improbably young.