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(OLNEY) in Junior College Basketball from Saturday here's results from the GRAC/District teams in action MEN'S * John A. Logan beat Wabash Valley, 82-...

(OLNEY) in Junior College Basketball from Saturday here's results from the GRAC/District teams in action MEN'S * John A. Logan beat Wabash Valley, 82-...

Steve Fay has worked in the fields of graphic arts and editing, nature and historical interpretation in public parks, and college-level teaching of writing. His collection of poems, what nature (Northwestern UP, 1998), was cited by the editors and board of the Orion Society as one of their 10 favorite nature and culture related books of the 12-month period in which it appeared.

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.

Early Progressives co-opted Abraham Lincoln’s legacy to justify their program of expansive government powers over American life. Conservative and libertarian thinking today has assumed, that the Progressives’ appropriation of Lincoln was legitimate.

The NewPages Big List of Contests lists writing contests, chapbook contests, book contests, and more from literary magazines, indie presses, and more.

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.

In 1919 Sherwood Anderson published his collection of loosely connected stories “Winesburg, Ohio” and it became, almost instantly, an American classic. Anderson wrote 22 short stories, each about a citizen of his fictional Winesburg.

Michael Martone in Tuscaloosa writes with great verve and a prolific comic imagination of his native Indiana in “Sketches of Winesburg, Indiana.”

"Nothing has ever compared to it since then, either. Now, in memory of that wonderful pastry, I will not sacrifice a pumpkin unless I plan to bake it into a pie," writes Jackie Hope.