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R         Gasconade Writers’ Guild.

563                  Anthology, 1941-1942.

                                    One volume.

 

 

 

This pamphlet contains poems by members of the Gasconade Writers’ Guild.  The Guild, founded in 1941 by Carl B. Ike, was composed primarily of authors from Phelps County, Mis­souri, but also included members from Pulaski County, Dent County, Carthage, and Bolivar, Missouri.  In addition to poems, the anthology contains biographical sketches and photographs of the authors.

 

In addition to founder Carl B. Ike, many of the authors published in this anthology were well known as regional writers in the Ozarks.  They included George Clinton Arthur, Miles H. Cagg, Herb Duncan, Clair V. Mann, and Charles L. Woods.  Two of the members were profes­sors at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy at Rolla (now the University of Missouri-Rolla), others were public school teachers, and two were librarians.  Several of the Guild mem­bers also belonged to the Ozarkian-Hillcrofters.  Four members of the Guild were in military service at the time of publication, and one, James M. Blake, had been killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor. 

 

 

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