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This week on Blanket Fort Radio Theater's production of "The Undaunted Women of Nanking," on the date refugees are ordered to leave Ginling, Minnie, though ill, oversees their departure while Tsen continues her work to acquire more medicine, and to document the births and deaths in the camp.
Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we honor Black History Month with a discussion of two exciting new titles from SIU Press. The first book, “Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest,” is by Jennifer Harbour.
From the blog of Daniel Wolpe at The Times of Israel
This week on Blanket Fort Radio Theater's production of "The Undaunted Women of Nanking," Vautrin and Tsen prepare, against their wishes, to send refugees away from Ginling. Tsen laments the women’s malnutrition, while Vautrin, witnessing continued attacks by Japanese soldiers, wonders what can be done to protect the women after they leave.Blanket Fort Radio Theater is a storytelling initiative of SIU Press in collaboration with the SIU Creative Writing Program and WSIU Radio.
Smith Creative Writing Series guest speaker comments on following the push-pull of art