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Featured Poet: Gerry Sloan

2019 March 28 by pdh513

Featured Poet: Gerry Sloan I was born in Oklahoma City in 1947 and moved to rural Leflore County shortly thereafter, ranging freely between the houses of grandparents in Howe and Heavener until my father bought a house on the G.I. Bill. I attended elementary school in Heavener through grade 6. The Heavener “runestone” made a permanent impression, as if you could inscribe … [Read more...] about Featured Poet: Gerry Sloan

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Poets and Poetry: Issue 9

2019 March 25 by pdh513

Over Here  By James Fowler  We come here to be shut of all that, settled into hills and minded our business, maybe partial to blood feuds, but not such as drag whole countries in. Our own hands worked this ground, never bound another to it, the way they done in the lowlands, them with their po-faced lost cause spread like a rash these thirty year. Outsiders say … [Read more...] about Poets and Poetry: Issue 9

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Excerpts from Two from the Country

2019 March 21 by pdh513

Excerpts from Two from the Country By Thomas J. Caruthers and Francis M. Kinder Editor’s note: The following anecdotes are excerpted from a privately printed booklet Two from the Country, which was written and published by Thomas J. Caruthers and Francis M. Kinder in 1961. A copy of this booklet was provided by one of their decedents, John Stanard. Stanard is the former … [Read more...] about Excerpts from Two from the Country

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Murder, Bankruptcy, Whiskey, and Revenuers: Myron Colony’s Excellent Adventures

2019 March 13 by pdh513

Murder, Bankruptcy, Whiskey & Revenuers: Myron Colony’s Excellent Adventures By Lynn Morrow   Local history recounts the lives and events of people with long-term connections to a particular place. But, historically and now, uncounted people reside locally for short periods, are central to events, and occasionally return for another appearance in familiar … [Read more...] about Murder, Bankruptcy, Whiskey, and Revenuers: Myron Colony’s Excellent Adventures

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Book Review: Down Along the Piney

2019 March 12 by pdh513

Down Along the Piney. By John Mort. (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018, Pp. 210) Reviewed by Steve Wiegenstein John Mort has quietly been assembling a significant body of work in novels and short stories that go back more than thirty years. A resident of Springfield, Mort has written fiction encompassing a wide range of subjects and locations, from Vietnam, where … [Read more...] about Book Review: Down Along the Piney

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