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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.