HousePoems by Dan GuilloryMayhaven Publishing, 2013161 Pages, $19.95 HousePoems is the latest book by Dan Guillory, poet, essayist and historian of the central Illinois landscape and its people. He has presented his readers with a rich volume describing homesteads ranging from log cabins to central Illinois mansions to the White House itself – where he […]
Peggy Sower Knoepfle
Peggy Sower Knoepfle, 69, is a longtime activist with the Mary Wood Branch of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom and with Witness for Peace. She is a former editor of Illinois Issues magazine. In October, she was named the Greater Springfield Interfaith Associations Humanitarian of the Year.
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Going to an anti-globalization protest combines the experience of a high-quality graduate seminar and a really cool international celebration with the experience of being tear-gassed. In other words, it’s full of contradictions. I went to Miami for the Nov. 19-21 protests because it is absolutely necessary to stop the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas […]
