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A Review of John Räikkonen’s Life
Is an Amazing Song is available here.

Arlene Sundquist Empie's new book
of poetry, Love is a Place, will be
available in 2012.

Garrison Keillor read one of Jane
Piirto's poems from Saunas
(Mayapple Press) on Sept. 25, 2011.
Check it out at http://writersalmanac.
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date=2011/09/25

G. K. Wuori's new book, Now that I'm
Ready to Tell You Everything, is now
available from Vagabondage Press:
http://www.vagabondagepress.com.
Read a review here.

Shortcut: The Seeberville Murders and
the Dark Side of the American Dream.
Steve Lehto's new book on
Seeberville is coming out in 2011. It will
name the person who cried Fire at the
Italian Hall in 1913.

Read a review of Ernest Hekkanen's
collected short stories, vol. I, here.
Read a review of his new Wintering
Over: Poems Strewn on Snow here.

Hear samples from the forthcoming
recording by Josef Aukee, Afterbeat
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See photos from Donna Salli's
play, The Rock Farm/Kivistön Tila,
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G. K. Wuori has published a play,
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