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  • Report on Arts Education

    For anyone who doubted the utility of the arts, the report, “Arts Education Makes A Difference in Missouri Schools”, put out in March 2010 by the Missouri Alliance…

  • Reading: “Strange Fruit” by Lillian Smith

    Since being awarded a Lillian E. Smith Foundation Writer-in-Service Residency, I thought I ought to read Strange Fruit. I’m not much a novel reader; I…

  • 10 Albums for a Desert Island

    I have been writing about so much heavy stuff lately – budget cuts and education woes – that I wanted to think about something more…

  • Watching “Howl” (2010)

    Last week, I watched Howl, the relatively new film with James Franco playing Allen Ginsberg in a quasi-documentary that mixes historical re-enactment with surreal animation…