An Old Man Bill Hogan August 6, 2017 2 The skin and hair have thinned, the muscles have shrunk and weakened, the carriage is bent. The energy that once animated the body and shined out through the eyes is dimmed. The attenti...
The Capitol of Entertainment Mason Bebo May 9, 2017 Star studded night The searchlights shine brightly It’s entertainment that I need Up on the billboard, the title glitters Wheeling’s own Broadway show The walk of fame full of music stars The time they sp...
Romantic Wheeling Project: Silence Rings Out Leslie Clark April 20, 2017 2 Silence rings out Along with the death of radiance, I lay above and still Listening to soft snores below. As my eyes are forced shut, A whistle cries out. I turn myself to the noise And look out afar. F...
Wheeling Women Artists: Bonnie Thurston Maria Kimble April 18, 2017 Bonnie Thurston is a proud West Virginian woman who grew up in a remote southern part of the state. Her first introduction to the literary world was when her father would read bible stories to her before bed as...
Romantic Wheeling Project: Greenwood Cemetery Eric Haller March 28, 2017 Obituaries Greenwood Cemetery, 151, Of Wheeling, West Virginia, Has yet to pass away. Greenwood was born in March, 1866, to the prominent citizens of Wheeling. 37.5 acres, Lined with monuments of human s...
driving route eighty-eight David J. Thomas March 19, 2017 8 in the space between working and not i lose myself essing and squiggling day and late on eighty-eight-- a kind of asphalt umbilical cord, connecting dawn and sunset--- wending way again today ...
Romantic Wheeling Project: Ozymandias Rebuttal Noah Ilovar February 21, 2017 The Romantic Wheeling Project is a multi-genre place-based learning project where 12th grade Honors English students at Wheeling Park High School used themes of British Romanticism like Natural over Artificial,...
Changing Course: A WLU Retirement Lacey Clymer January 18, 2017 7 When David J. Thomas, originally from Burgettstown, PA, first came to West Liberty State College (WLSC) in 1970, he was a sophomore at Weirton Madonna High School (MHS). His early entry into WLSC was due to his...
The Power of Intense Fragility Bill Hogan November 15, 2016 2 * Title attributed to E. E. Cummings The other evening I attended a musical program at Wheeling Jesuit University. Looking up from a table of delicious desserts after the performance, I saw Mary Hamm across th...
W.Va.’s Poet Laureate A Student Of Life Steve Novotney October 22, 2016 1 This Poet Laureate’s pace when he’s publicly reading his work is sometimes somewhat swift and steamed, but when Marc Harshman is embracing a conversation, the author chooses his words most carefully. He is arti...
Newspaper Hawker David J. Thomas September 26, 2016 2 Herb limps down and up the cinders on the berm of Exit Ramp 2-A behind Perkins’ restaurant. He holds up The Intel. He is tired; he is sweaty! His dirty tennis shoes cry out: “Chrish-...
Year of the Bloody Sevens Chad Burrall September 20, 2016 there are new silhouettes in this farm field at night now and I hope that the shapes of digits on this farmhouse clock face tell of times the old storms rolled through ‐ when lightning lashed out at t...
just another Warwood brat David J. Thomas September 16, 2016 8 just another Warwood brat, son of Clyde and Vera, running the streets with Moe, Rudy, Mario, Bill, and Ray near North 20th pacing the courts at the YMCA under his dad’s skeptical eye lettering in three...
Bridge Song Chad Burrall August 28, 2016 that railroad bridge sentence spelled out in dark Cyrillic letter struts overtop the Ohio finally sang me a train song this morning on such a snow globe set stage where dead drifted harmonies float do...
You Once Saw a Bird Lacey Clymer August 25, 2016 you once saw a bird flying overhead you remarked on her beauty but she flew away instead you once heard a bird singing her sweet song you didn't know the words but you sang right along you once felt...
A Poem: County Road 4 Chad Burrall August 12, 2016 cold porch lights chase me thirty miles per hour downhill to the Ohio past bison in greasy fields old company town hollow filled by skinny creek run full of yellow dog seeps out back behind a mine store...
A Poem – “In Defense of my Dog” Sara Fincham April 11, 2016 6 My mind and my mouth don’t always agree. My mind says, “Just walk away,” but my mouth is the only thing that starts moving. My mind says, “Just let it go,” but my mouth prepares for battle. You know how the ...
The Poetry Break: Louise McNeill Glynis Board March 17, 2016 Story courtesy of Weelunk partner West Virginia Public Broadcasting West Virginia Poet Laureate and Ohio County resident Marc Harshman delivers the poetry of his predecessor's predecessor in this P...
A Poem: We Walked Lee Chottiner January 18, 2016 (I was honored to be a speaker at this year's City of Wheeling Martin Luther King Interfaith Gathering for Freedom. I read this poem, which I wrote especially for the occasion.) We Walked away from Auschw...
A Mid November Morning Lauren Cuff November 21, 2015 A pewter sky branches almost bare a few burnt orange leaves stretch sway tear free from branch flit dance fall to the ground to the frozen earth to the brittle brown A few burnt orange leaves fall ...
Autumn: A Poem Aaron P. Kittle September 24, 2015 This poem is courtesy of our friends at Elkinte.com Soon comes the eve whose dawn shall be autumn Where the woodland sheds all, to be raked and forgotten With damp leaf puddles on each road and lawn Summe...
The Wheeling Feeling – A Poem MJM September 5, 2015 The Wheeling Feeling.. ------ “The Friendly city” so it’s called, Along the Ohio River it lays sprawled. Nestled in the hills where so few know, If you blink you’ll miss it, though. ------ It’s a city ...
This Is The Season For Doing Something in Downtown Wheeling Steve Novotney June 23, 2015 1 They wrote on-the-spot poems for $5 on really old typewriters right there in front of everyone. One of the composers was Bethany College’s Jessie Janeshek, and the other was Marc Harshman, the poet laureate of ...
A Song for West Virginia Marc Harshman June 20, 2015 2 We give the mountains our names / and they stand still... -- Irene McKinney Walnut Springs Mountain Reserve, near Union in Monroe County, West Virginia. Photo by Steve Shaluta. ...
Spring Lauren Cuff May 12, 2015 1 A flush of green Lilac, lavender, sweet the soft puff of dandelion seeds A hawk gliding on a breeze Caterpillars bungee jump from trees Wheeling Creek hushed by leaves A couple sitting on its bank heads ...
Yesterday: A Haibun Poem Alice Hembra April 24, 2015 3 Yesterday memories gather in the rear view mirror framing a rich past Wheeling, late 50's: A living breathing organism; the population on the verge of decline. The business di...
Snow Day, a Poem Lauren Cuff March 5, 2015 By Lauren Cuff Weelunk Contributor Snow Day I have coffee I keep my pajamas on I play music I listen to my dog snore I begin to write a story for my nephew...