Ann Rutledge’s Grave—Jason Stacy on lost love, Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology, and exhuming the legends of Petersburg, Illinois.
Edgar Lee Masters – Petersburg, Illinois
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Zitkála-Šá – Richmond, Indiana
Earlham Hall — Leah Milne on alienation, determination, and Zitkála-Šá’s time in Richmond, Indiana.
William Gass – St. Louis, Missouri
Devin Thomas O’Shea on everyday hatreds, inside and outside William Gass’s The Tunnel.
Naomi Shihab Nye – Ferguson, Missouri
Central Elementary—Tayler Fox on Naomi Shihab Nye and the effects of imposed divisions in Ferguson, Missouri.
Henry Bellamann – Fulton, Missouri
Henry Bellamann Brick District PlayhouseFulton, Missouri By Alex Dzurick The 1940 novel Kings Row once so offended residents of Fulton, Missouri, that you couldn’t find a copy on the shelves of the local library. You could, however, in the very same town, find a copy...