This debut collection includes love songs and prayers, palinodes and pleas, short histories and tragic tales as well as a series of ventriloquist poems that track the epiphanies and consequences of speaking in a voice other than one’s own. Other poems speak to a Beloved and the highs and lows of parenthood and personhood—all with music and verve, with formal dexterity, with sadness and humor, with an intimate voice that can both whisper in our ears and grab us by the collar and implore us to listen. “What drives the poems in this wonderfully animated debut volume and prompts the reader’s pleasure in them is the patent honesty of the poet’s voice. In the ‘ventriloquist’ series itself, Fay-LeBlanc creates a remarkable refracted self-portrait, bristling with moments of unabashed illumination.”—Eamon Grennan, author of Out of Sight

The second annual benchmark study of library spending plans from Library Resource Guide explores the wide range of spending and priorities decision-making taking place in 2012 budgets for public, academic and special libraries. Includes year-to-year comparative data. Learn where peer institutions are focusing their scarce investments, based on a study of over 700 participating North American institutions.

A Cappella Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

A choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music at Winspear Hall.

Jazz concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

A symphonic band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Wind Symphony concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

A World Voice Day event performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Rock Combo concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Recording of "Opera Without Elephants: The Operas of Jake Heggie" performed at the UNT College of Music Lyric Theater.

Recording of "Opera Without Elephants: The Operas of Jake Heggie" performed at the UNT College of Music Lyric Theater.

A new music recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Orchestra and Chorus concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall

Symphonic and choral concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Nova Ensemble performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

A jazz choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.

From book jacket: In the humid forests of Cape Horn, a single tree can host more than 100 species of little epiphyte plants. The floor of the forest and the rocks are also covered by numerous species of liverworts, mosses, and lichens. The decision to stop at a tree or rock and explore these “miniature forests” generates an authentic ecotourism experience. In a small area we can spend several minutes or hours with a magnifying glass or camera discovering the colors, shapes, and textures of the most diverse organisms of Cape Horn. This guidebook enhances exploration by providing information to understand the architecture, life cycles, and identification of taxonomic groups of the organisms that form them. For example, when viewing a yellow orange organism, the full color pictures and text in the guidebook illustrate that what you are viewing on the inter-tidal rocks is a crustose lichen, with a well-defined circular structure belonging to the genus Caloplaca that enjoys a broad distribution in inter-tidal zones of Arctic and Antarctic areas. The authors of this guidebook also provide a novel twist on other, more traditional field guides to bryophytes and lichens by introducing the innovative, sustainable tourism activity of “ecotourism with …