Poetry At The Lake

Next Thursday, October 19, the University of West Alabama's Languages and Literature Department will be hosting Poetry at the Lake at Lake LU. There will be free food, free entertainment (i.e. readings), and good company. The readings will start around 5:00. If you wish to read a poem (of someone else's, not your own), there will be a sign up sheet at the pavilion. Please feel free to stop by and join us for this fun literary event!

***

"Happiness"

I ASKED the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

- Carl Sandburg