Vigil for the Marcellus Shale

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=95 BGCOLOR="#CC99CC" TEXT="#080000" background="006265f1ezuady.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>FootHills 2013</B></FONT><B>  </B><B> </B><B>|   </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FootHills 2013"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FootHills 2013"><U>FootHills 2013</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id13.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Books 2013"><U>Books 2013</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id14.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FHP Poets Alphabetically"><U>FHP Poets Alphabetically</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="I Was Indian II Anthology"><U>I Was Indian II Anthology</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Timothy Gray"><U>Timothy Gray</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mimi Moriarty"><U>Mimi Moriarty</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Laury Egan"><U>Laury Egan</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Parenteau"><U>Parenteau</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Merrifield"><U>Merrifield</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Deer Cloud"><U>Deer Cloud</U></A>   |   <B>Vigil for the Marcellus Shale</B>   |   <A HREF="id66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Antler"><U>Antler</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id67.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rebecca Knotts"><U>Rebecca Knotts</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Josh Slotnick"><U>Josh Slotnick</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id69.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Robert Darling"><U>Robert Darling</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sheryl Noethe"><U>Sheryl Noethe</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id10.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Anthologies"><U>Anthologies</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>Ordering By Mail</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact"><U>Contact</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=385 BGCOLOR="#BBBBBB" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Vigil for the Marcellus Shale</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>VIGIL  </B></div> <div> <B>FOR</B></div> <div> <B>THE MARCELLUS SHALE</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Edited by </B></div> <div> <B>Dwain Wilder & Bart White</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b52cde0.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="478" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Public Poetry in a Dire Time</div> <bR> <div> The world is at a great crossroads, a moment defined by growing global awareness of the huge disparities between the power, wealth and rapacity of corporations, the sway they have over government, legislators, regulators, and even - to some extent - the courts, and the plight of ordinary people, waving as in Whitman's image, like tall prairie grass over the whole Earth.</div> <bR> <div> The struggle to keep our environment free of hydraulic fracturing has become, in many ways, the epitome of this crossroads, pitting grassroots rural people, aroused and radicalized because of its dangers, against the power of the world's richest corporations - the oil and gas industry….</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> -Dwain Wilder, Co-editor, <I>Vigil for the Marcellus Shale</I></div> <bR> <div> Against Giants</div> <bR> <div> A rapturous hymn in celebration of water… a couple facing hopeless bills and hard choices…an elegy for land rendered sterile and a defiant shout of "Keep Off!"… ground zero in the fracking wars…A lying down before bulldozers. A brave refusal to move.</div> <bR> <div> Poems of anger, poems of sorrow. What can a few poor poets do against the might of Exxon® and other corporate mammoths? For what comes next, we need the angry kind. We need poets to defy their power. We need small farmers and ordinary citizens who are brave, stubborn, unshakeable and cunning. We will play David to their Goliath. We're pretty handy with slingshots.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> -Bart White, Co-editor, <I>Vigil for the Marcellus Shale</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Table of Contents</B></div> <bR> <div> Public Poetry in a Dire Time - Dwain Wilder     7</div> <div> Against Giants - Bart White     8</div> <bR> <div> <B>Craig Czury</B>     </div> <div> from <I>MARCELLUS JOURNAL</I>     11</div> <bR> <div> <B>Steve Coffman</B>     </div> <div> News Flash! NO WITNESSES FOUND TO </div> <div> COUNTER INDUSTRY CLAIM     18</div> <div> A Fracker's Mother Speaks     19</div> <bR> <div> <B>Michael Czarnecki</B>     </div> <div> Waterfall/Helderbergs     21</div> <bR> <div> <B>Brian Dykstra</B>     </div> <div> Big Slick     22</div> <bR> <div> <B>Laura Glenn</B>     </div> <div> Slickwater     24</div> <div> Untouchable Earth     25</div> <bR> <div> <B>Karla Linn Merrifield</B>     </div> <div> North American Triptych in Oil     26</div> <bR> <div> <B>Maril Nowak</B>     </div> <div> A Farmer Recalls the Future     30</div> <div> Flaming Bullies     32</div> <bR> <div> <B>John Roche</B>     </div> <div> Walleye Ate the Oilman     33</div> <div> Gift from God     34</div> <bR> <div> <B>Sandra Steingraber</B>     </div> <div> Marcellus     35</div> <bR> <div> <B>Lisa Wujnovich</B>     </div> <div> Cider Pressing Party     38</div> <div> Albany Fracking Protest     39</div> <div> Fieldwork     40</div> <div> Gas Drilling-It's Like This:      41</div> <div> Milking     42</div> <div> Signs     43</div> <div> To Haiti from Mountain Dell Farm     46</div> <div> I Can Almost Forget     47</div> <bR> <div> <B>Dwain Wilder</B>     </div> <div> Jack o' Wells     48</div> <div> Tax Rites at Seneca Lake     52</div> <bR> <div> <B>Bart White</B>     </div> <div> Pure     53</div> <div> Drink Up     54</div> <bR> <div> Resources     57</div> <bR> <div> Editors' Bio     59</div> <bR> <div> <B>VIGIL FOR </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" ><B>THE MARCELLUS SHALE </B></FONT></div> <div> is a 60 page hand-stitched paper book with spine.   $14.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE                               </div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US         <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="VIGIL FOR THE MARCELLUS SHALE "> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="13-8"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Canada    <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="VIGIL FOR THE MARCELLUS SHALE "> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="13-8"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Fox Mountain "> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="VIGIL FOR THE MARCELLUS SHALE "> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="13-8"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="14.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>    </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>