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  • Blue Sabine

    Blue Sabine

    Blue Sabine
 by Gerald Duff December 2011
6×9, 320 pages
$19.95 paper   Blue Sabine is a story of five generations of women in the same family, told in their voices, along with those of some men of Holt blood. It is set along the Sabine River, which divides the state of Texas from Louisiana and the [...]

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  • robert e smith: Paintings, Drawings, Poems, and Stories

    robert e smith: Paintings, Drawings, Poems, and Stories

    robert e smith Paintings, Drawings, Poems, and Stories Selected and Edited by Eric Pervukhin and Carla Stine   “Folk art can help you to lead a halfway decent life,” Robert E. Smith (1927-2010) was heard to say; but Springfield, Missouri’s most famous, eccentric, and beloved painter pushed his work into the realm of outsider art. [...]

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  • Moon City Review 2011

    Moon City Review 2011

    Moon City Review 2011: 
An Annual of Poetry, Story, Art, and Criticism
 Edited by Marcus Cafagña and Joel Chaston. 
Photography by Bruce West   The 2011 volume in the MCR book series focuses on alumni in the broadest sense of the word. Some of the best writers and artists in and from the Ozarks are featured, [...]

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  • Confederate Girlhoods: A Women’s History of Early Springfield, Missouri

    Confederate Girlhoods: A Women’s History of Early Springfield, Missouri

    Confederate Girlhoods: A Women’s History of Early Springfield, Missouri. Edited by Craig A. Meyer, with Casey D. White, Adam C. Veile, and Amber V. Luce. Foreword by Roseann Bentley. 6 x 9, 360 pages, 48 early photographs. $24.95, paper. November 2010 release.   Confederate Girlhoods gathers materials from the Campbell-McCammon Collection, as preserved in The History Museum for [...]

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  • For, From, About James T Whitehead

    For, From, About James T Whitehead

    For, From, About James T. Whitehead
: Poems, Stories, Photographs, and Recollections 
Edited by Michael Burns
. Photographs by Bruce West 6 x 9, 156 pages, 16 photographs. 
$15.99 paper   “I have relished Jim’s poetry and consider Joiner to be one of the South’s best novels. He meant a lot to me, and I’m grateful for his [...]

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  • The Gillioz “Theatre Beautiful”

    The Gillioz “Theatre Beautiful”

    The Gillioz “Theatre Beautiful”
Celebrating Springfield’s Theatre History, 1926–2006
Edited by James S. Baumlin 
Preface by Roy Blunt 
Artwork and design by Eric Pervukhin 7 1/2 x 11, 96 pages, with 80 
historic colorized photographs and illustrations
. $22.95 paper. 2006 release.   “While written for a popular audience, this book is perhaps the most detailed study published [...]

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  • Remembering Michael Burns: A Reading from Night of the Grizzly

    Remembering Michael Burns: A Reading from Night of the Grizzly

    Missouri State University English Faculty, Public Library and Barnes & Noble Join in Remembering Poet Michael Burns  On Monday evening, April 23, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Springfield’s Barnes & Noble Bookstore will host an event, “Remembering Michael Burns: A Reading from Night of the Grizzly.” Free and open to the public, the evening will begin [...]

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  • Poetry and Motion: Performances by Inertia Dance Company, Poetry by Michael Burns

    Poetry and Motion: Performances by Inertia Dance Company, Poetry by Michael Burns

    Remembering Michael Burns, Poet and Founder of the Missouri State University Creative Writing Program Faculty, alumni, and friends of the Missouri State University English Department remember their long-time teacher and colleague, Michael Burns (1953-2011), who helped found the department’s creative writing program. Though his living voice has passed, his poetry remains. Forthcoming from Moon City Press, Night [...]

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  • Moon City Review 2010

    Moon City Review 2010

    Moon City Review 2010 An Annual of Poetry, Story, Art, and Criticism ISBN 978-0-913785-30-0 6 x 9, 200 pages, 12 illustrations $15.95 paper ISBN 978-0-913785-30-0 Edited by Lanette Cadle and Marcus Cafagña Cover by Eric Pervukhin “Moon City Review will certainly be worth keeping an eye on.” —Sima Rabinowitz, in NewPages   The 2010 volume of Moon City Review takes [...]

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  • Great reviews are coming in for Morkan’s Quarry

    Great reviews are coming in for Morkan’s Quarry

    Reviews so far include the Jackson Star-Ledger, with Joe L. White writing that “Yates takes a father-son saga with a Civil War setting to reflect a much larger picture of man’s inhumanity to man and the formation of character. Indeed, the author initially reveals each limestone monument cut from the cliffs the two Morkan men [...]

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