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"They were so into it. I had only planned on teaching like 20 of them, but they asked to keep going."

SIU University Press recently published “The New Star Chamber and Other Essays" by Edgar Lee Masters, which was edited by SIUE students and designed by SIU students in a collaborative

David Allen Crossett, a loving husband, father, grandf30054ather and brother, passed away peacefully at his home in Hackettstown, N.J., on Sunday, Sept. 17, 202

David Allen Crossett, a loving husband, father, grandfather and brother, passed away peacefully at his home in Hackettstown on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, at the age of 82.

Andy Smetanka assembled the two-hour film from home movies dating back a hundred years, set to music by local artists.

Recorded in pubs, kitchens and community halls, these old Irish songs are a thrilling reminder that the voice needs no technology to move us deeply

Few now recall the poet Laurance Pratt who spent most of his life in and around Portland and Southwest Washington. A prolific writer, Pratt penned numerous poetry books and three partly autobiographic

I’ve been unnerved by Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch before as she goes about depicting a post-WWII world. Now she’s unsettled me with a searing set of questions: How have we

Very few poets started out as poets. Unless they came from money (Lord Byron, the Sitwell Family) they undertook other ways of making a living, ways that they hung onto until they felt compelled or at least comfortable in pursuing a writer’s career. Find out which which poets had surprising day jobs before they felt safe in giving them up.

Our list of the 222 best books of all time has personal picks from booksellers, as well as from acclaimed authors like Anne Tyler and George R.R. Martin.