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By Rebecca H. Romano  ¦   Rock Bridge Bruins pitcher Jaide Rose throws the ball at the baseball game Thursday at Taylor Stadium. The game went extra innings, ending in the ninth, with Rock Bridge winning 5-1 over Hickman.

By Alex Lewis  ¦   Hickman's interim girls soccer coach Jeff Wallace, left, and his assistant, Sandy Paulson, took over the team this season.

By BEN DILLON/Missourian  ¦   Mike Berrett, an experimental poet, played a large part in beginning the slam poetry movement in Chicago.

By Courtesy handout  ¦   "Din & Sit: Cuts of Phi on Sein und Zeit"

By Courtesy handout  ¦   "Dinsitinson"

By Courtesy handout  ¦   "Corners"

By BEN DILLON/Missourian  ¦   Mike Barrett, an experimental poet, is one of the individuals who played a large part in beginning the slam poetry movement in Chicago.

By BEN DILLON/Missourian  ¦   Several passages in 'Phidias, Heidegger, Adorno' are justified in orderly shapes, employing mathematical proportions like the Golden Ratio that have been used in architecture since ancient times.

By BEN DILLON/Missourian  ¦   On this page, Barrett uses lines and angled text to control the impact of his words.

By SAIT SERKAN GURBUZ/Missourian  ¦   Dark clouds loom over the Boone County Courthouse just before a foreclosures auction on Feb.25.

By SAIT SERKAN GURBUZ/Missourian  ¦   Two interested gentlemen, who declined to give their name, listen closely as Attorney Jim Powell conducts a foreclosure auction on the steps of the Boone County Courthouse on Feb.25.

By SAIT SERKAN GURBUZ/Missourian  ¦   Realtor Greg Harmon checks out a foreclosed home in Columbia on April 21.

By SAIT SERKAN GURBUZ/Missourian  ¦   Realtor Greg Harmon takes photographs of dampened and stained carpets and mice feces in a foreclosed home in Columbia on April 21.

By RACHEL CRADER/Missourian  ¦   While waiting for the Big 12 Conference Awards ceremony to begin, members of the Missouri softball team lounge in the grass Friday at the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.

By RACHEL CRADER/Missourian  ¦   Missouri freshman Rhea Taylor accepts her award for being named to the all-conference first team. Taylor was also named Big 12 Freshman of the Year at the Big 12 Conference awards ceremony on Friday in Oklahoma City.

By Su Jing  ¦   Maplewood Barn, Columbia's only local outdoor theater, opened its 35th anniversary season with Shakespeare's "King Lear."

By Tina Macias  ¦   Hear poet Mike Barrett read from his recent work, "Phideas, Heidegger, Adorno," which he performed in April in Orange, Calif., in the living room of his home in Columbia's First Ward.

By Lauren Fredman and Danielle Karsens  ¦   Listen to Branson Interactive Zoo and Aquarium’s Husbandry Director, Breck Wakefield, talk about what makes this travel destination unique.

By Tom Gannam/Associated Press  ¦   China's Deputy General-Director of Narcotics Control Liu Yuejin is joined by John Walters, director of National DrugControl policy, right, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, center, and Mexico's Public Security Secretary Eduardo Medina Mora, as he signs a joint statement from the three countries pledging to cooperate in the continued fight against the manufacture and trafficking of methamphetamine, on Wednesday in St. Louis.

By HEATHER MCGUIRE  ¦   Garrett McCaffrey posted a video on Floswimming.org that filmed a portion of a race during the Missouri Grand Prix in February. The video led to a suspension of his press credentials.