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SIU Press and WSIU present Blanket Fort Radio Theater, a project highlighting works published by SIU Press. This series includes work from students in the SIUC Creative Writing Program, who have taken SIU Press books and brought them to life. Join us each Thursday for a new installment of Blanket Fort Radio Theater.Inside the Blanket Fort features special segments: Meet the producers, get previews and reviews of episodes, and get a special glimpse behind the blankets.

Grossmont College will be spotlighting authors and poets from around the nation, as well as student works, at its 26th annual Literary Arts Festival, running from April 25-28.

This week on Blanket Fort Radio Theater, it's the final installment of "The Undaunted Women of Nanking." In this final episode, we witness the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Nanking and explore the lives of the Undaunted Women as they attempt to find peace after the horrors they have witnessed.

In November of 1781, 133 Africans were murdered over a 10-day period aboard the slave ship “Zong.” M. NourbeSe Philip’s book length poem “Zong!” is a response to this seldom discussed tragedy., Click to open gallery viewM. NourbeSe PhilipPEN/Nabokov

A recent event celebrated faculty who had earned promotion and/or the grant of tenure, were appointed to named and endowed professorships or had earned membership in the National Academies or the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

​​​​​​​(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, will celebrate National Poetry Month and host a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, April 10 at 4:00pm.  The readings will take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center.  The reading will feature Lynn Levin and Sandy Solomon. Their readings will be followed by an open mic available to up to 10 audience members ...

Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort this week as we hear from the Author of "Snake Road: A Field Guide to the Snakes of Larue-Pine Hills" from SIU Press. Josh Vossler provides some insights into planning a safe visit to Snake Road.

57th Annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Program with D. A. Powell - Acclaimed author D.A. Powell will feature in the 57th Annual Wallace Stevens Poetry...

Efforts to dissolve the safety zone and its protections begin, and the closure of other camps brings a new influx of refugees to Ginling. Increased sanitary measures are instituted to help prevent the spread of disease. Meanwhile, Minnie Vautrin tracks the aircraft activity overhead.

This week on Blanket Fort Radio Theater's production of "The Undaunted Women of Nanking," with the arrival of spring, the women must confront the problem of waste disposal at Ginling in order to avoid the spread of disease. As Vautrin and Tsen say goodbye to a beloved foreign humanitarian, they recall the initial occupation of Nanking and discuss their hope for future projects at the College.Blanket Fort Radio Theater is a storytelling initiative of SIU Press in collaboration with...