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Ecology of the Ozarks: Framing a Critical Place Conscious Pedagogy through Ecological Literacy

2022 April 19 by pdh513

Ecology of the Ozarks: Framing a Critical Place Conscious Pedagogy through Ecological Literacy By Cathie English "Part of living well involves developing a sustainable relationship with the natural world in which one’s community is located. Understanding the biology of one’s region, how that biology connects to local industry and agriculture, and the consequent biological … [Read more...] about Ecology of the Ozarks: Framing a Critical Place Conscious Pedagogy through Ecological Literacy

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Book Review: Tornado Drill by Dave Malone

2022 April 3 by pdh513

Tornado Drill. By Dave Malone. (Kelsay Books, 2022, 100 pp.) Reviewed by Paulette Guerin Dave Malone’s seventh poetry collection Tornado Drill offers a landscape of everyday people working and living, of sunrises and sunsets, of old lovers, of wrens who “drown the sky in flight.” With grace, but without sentimentality, Malone’s poems follow these currents through the … [Read more...] about Book Review: Tornado Drill by Dave Malone

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Dog Days by Matt McGowan (Fiction)

2022 February 21 by pdh513

Dog Days By Matt McGowan ____________________________________________________________ Leon DeWitt walked toward Joplin on Trout Farm Road, a twisting and rolling double yellow not made for hitchhikers. Two times already he’d hopped off the road to avoid getting hit, first by a pickup truck, then by a concrete mixer. The latter surprised him. No one Leon knew out … [Read more...] about Dog Days by Matt McGowan (Fiction)

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Book Review: Wading through Lethe by Paulette Guerin

2022 January 10 by pdh513

Wading Through Lethe, by Paulette Guerin, FutureCycle Press, 2022, 84 pp. Reviewed by N. S. Boone Paulette Guerin’s first book is entitled Wading Through Lethe. The title is important, for it not only highlights the book’s key themes of memory and loss, but it also indicates the function of the lyric in the volume. Lethe refers to the waters of oblivion. Plato, in Book 10 … [Read more...] about Book Review: Wading through Lethe by Paulette Guerin

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Book Review: Field Trip by James Fowler

2022 January 9 by pdh513

Field Trip: Stories by James Fowler. Cornerpost Press, 2022, Pp. 194 Reviewed by C. D. Albin In a brief author’s note at the beginning of his debut story collection Field Trip, James Fowler designates place as the soil “from which my characters rise and in which they become themselves.” Yet unlike many authors who identify the notion of place as the source of their … [Read more...] about Book Review: Field Trip by James Fowler

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