First novel wordplay reflects writer’s “crush on life”

It is hard to imagine a single person who has exerted more influence on the literary life of Springfield in the past calendar year than Joanna Beth Tweedy, founder and co-editor of Quiddity, thelite

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Feature | Thursday, February 9,2006

Pigs, ice cream, and socks

Snapshots of the Great Emancipator’s life, set to verse

By Dan Guillory

Several years ago, Dan Guillory began a series of poems about Abraham Lincoln’s life. The poems, chronicling the events and people in the life of the 16th

Feature | Thursday, February 10,2005

The president’s voice

By Dan Guillory

What if Abraham Lincoln had set to verse his thoughts on the events and people who shaped his extraordinary life? Writer and professor Dan Guillory asked that

Feature | Thursday, February 12,2004

In Lincoln’s voice

By Dan Guillory

What if Abraham Lincoln had committed his observations to verse, shared his private feelings about the remarkable -- and the mundane -- events of his life? What would a freshman state legislato