What do English teachers do when they retire? Well, Mrs. Modine puts her analytical skills to work solving mysteries in D. Ann Johnson’s calendar mystery series. In the first book, Mrs. Modine and the Case of the Labor Day Love Affair Murder, Mrs. Modine gets her first taste of solving crimes when she receives a… Read More Dency Grubbs Interview
Poet Lisa Higgs, interviewed by her University of Illinois Springfield colleague Ted Morrissey, discusses her chapbook of sonnets, Lodestar (2011); the collection she’s currently writing; poetic craft; and the Vachel Lindsay Association, for which she serves as president. The interview took place in the historic Vachel Lindsay Home, originally built in the 1840s.
Fine Art and Digital Media: Jaclyn Altfillisch–Mangoes–Piggy on the Rhone; Em Bradley–Quhoo; Jordan Bradley– Please to Meet Me; James Elliott– D & B; –Sleeping Bears; Laura Feller–On the Grasshopper & Cricket; Richard Gillespie–St. Louis Motor Company –The Tub; Bryon Hartley– “Forms”; Rose Henderson–“R” is For Rabbit; Samantha Hill–Looking Through My Eyes; Rachael Lindholm–Hands and Feet;… Read More 2011 Fine Art and Digital Media Preview
Isaac “Marty” Morris is Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy at Lincoln Land Community College and the author of The Absence of Goodness. Deborah Brothers interviewed Morris in October 2010 about his novel, which is set in Springfield, Illinois. Although the book references an actual unsolved murder of a young woman from Springfield, Morris explains in this… Read More Isaac “Marty” Morris Interview Part One and Two
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