Community calendar Sep 17, 2009
The play is based on the poetry of Edgar Lee Masters. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for non-C-SC students. (Keokuk Daily Gate City, IO)
ISU's enrichment programs beginning soon Jul 27, 2009
Resurrecting Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, Tim Hunt, ISU professor of English; 9:30-11 a.m. Sept. 14, 21, ISU Alumni Center. Bus trip planned for Sept. 30. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Summer reading series back at Blasco Tuesday Jul 12, 2009
" The series will conclude with a discussion of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," a collection of unusual, short, free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River. The collection includes 212 separate characters, all providing 224 accounts of their lives and losses. Held at the Blasco Library on Tuesday afternoons, these discussions are free and open to the public. "People interested in participating should stop by the library to pick up a... (Erie Times-News, PA)
Why Bill Kauffman Is Not a Conservative Jun 16, 2009
In deference to Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology poet and anti-imperialist states-rights Democrat, I shan t quote Clarence Darrow s line about lost causes being the only ones worth fighting for. Masters had been Darrow s law partner, and he disdained the Chicago loudmouth as a headline-hogging welsher. (The American Conservative)
