FIREFLIES I don’t mean to bevulgar now, but when you narrowed your still thighs, it was like a firefly lighting the night just over the hill, with its lantern along- side a bush, and I came chasing, daunting your wings with the warm cup of hands that were clapping gingerly. –David Radavich Local poets were […]
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Bards of the Sangamo 7-3-03
A War Bulletin. The ruins–I walk around them 100 years before. Civilization’s tall buildings–crumbling ruins yet to rise. Vachel calls to me, “Don’t give up on my Golden City. The Golden City will rise from the ashes. It is you who holds the flame to Paradise.” I stagger around the city in the magic duskdawn […]
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Your Turn . . . 7-3-03
Acting locally To the editor: Peter Sherman’s recent article [“PR to the rescue,” June 26] revealed several reasons why District 186 has credibility issues beyond selling referendums to its constituents. First, the district hired an out-of-market PR firm without sending out a Request for Proposals to local PR companies with employees that pay taxes to […]
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Your Turn. . . 1-09-03
Stomp a Success Dear Illinois Times and Dusty Rhodes: Thank you for initially bringing the Duke Tumatoe story to light and for your continued interest in the events surrounding that story. Your coverage of my fund-raiser was the deciding factor in the success of this project. During the course of the evening my belief was […]
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Your Turn. . . 6-26-03
Showing God’s will in this moment of “darkness” To the editor, I read your profile of Stephen Brady [“Defender of the Faith” June 19], the Petersburg businessman who has become the world’s most effective force in removing sexual predators from the Catholic clergy, on the same day that the Catholic Bishops of the United States […]
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Your Turn. . . 1-16-03
Support your local cinema To the editor, I was a bit surprised to see that Illinois Times “Night & Day: What’s Happening In The Capital City” section [January 9] was encouraging your readers to drive to Bloomington-Normal to see the movie Frida, a film that is scheduled to open at the White Oaks in Springfield […]
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Bards of the Sangamo 6-26-03
First Light It’s not sunup at Lincoln Greens, the skies are dark and gray. But I’m poised to start my work, on bunkers and fairways. The mowers sweep across the greens, the fairways and the tees. Their eerie lights, their ghost-like shapes, might startle some–not me! You lucky folks who sleep ’till eight, and work […]
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Gentlemen, wreck your engines
Last Sunday was hot and muddy at the Sangamon County Fairgrounds. In a field behind one grandstand sat row upon row of wrecked cars: 71 V-8 rust buckets from Detroit’s golden age, and 33 compacts with their doors and hoods wired shut. All of the vehicles had their windshields removed; batteries and gas tanks were […]
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Your Turn. . . 1-23-03
Don’t count us in Dear Editor: I write to correct inaccurate information found in a letter to the editor in the January 16 edition of the Illinois Times. The letter incorrectly states that Sojourn plans to participate in a march in connection with a group called the Illinois Citizens Against Abuse & Brutality. Sojourn is […]
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Bards of the Sangamo 6-19-03
Shirley’s Eyes One misty morning, three visions, pleasant reverberations, came to me– your veiled face, a nocturnal lily blooming in the twilight of my hope, and a silver harp. I couldn’t discern your smile, but your eyes shone opalescent fire, more mysterious than stirred gray embers, ash glow from a burned out star. You sparked […]
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Your Turn. . . 6-19-03
Congratulations Illinois Times contributor Jack Clark–author of our original detective serial, The Highway Side–has been named a 2003 Shamus Award finalist for his first Nick Acropolis novel, Westerfield’s Chain (St. Martin’s Press). The Private Eye Writers of America has been awarding the Shamus to detective novelists for the last 22 years. Past recipients include Ross […]
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Your Turn. . . 6-12-03
Correction In my “Happy birthday, Frank Lloyd Wright!” story that appeared last week, I should have said Lois Dunbar has long portrayed Susan Lawrence Dana. Pete Sherman A fair shake on the Fair Share Value Dear Pete Sherman, I was reading your article in the Thursday, June 5-11, 2003, edition of the Illinois Times […]
