Discipline | Literary journal |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Neil Shepard |
Publication details | |
History | 1975–present |
Publisher | |
Frequency | Biannual |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Green Mt. Rev. |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 0895-9307 |
Links | |
Green Mountains Review is an American literary journal published biannually at Johnson State College in Vermont, [1] founded by senior editor Neil Shepard [2] and currently edited by Elizabeth Powell and Jacob White.
Green Mountains Review was started in 1975. [3] [4] Past contributors of note include Agha Shahid Ali, Marvin Bell, Mark Doty, Stephen Dunn, Donald Hall, Joy Harjo, Laird Hunt, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin, Ann Lauterbach, J. Robert Lennon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Molly Peacock, Benjamin Percy, Robert Pinsky, Alexander Theroux, Anne Waldman, Charles Wright, Mary Oliver, Gary Soto, Robert Walser, Tom Whalen, and David Wojahn.
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Mountain Dew, stylized as Mtn Dew in some countries, is a soft drink brand, produced and owned by PepsiCo. The original formula was invented in 1940 by Tennessee beverage bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman. A revised formula was created by Bill Bridgforth in 1958. The rights to this formula were obtained by the Tip Corporation of Marion, Virginia. William H. "Bill" Jones of the Tip Corporation further refined the formula, launching that version of Mountain Dew in 1961. In August 1964, the Mountain Dew brand and production rights were acquired from Tip by the Pepsi-Cola company, and the distribution expanded across the United States and Canada.
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Black Mountain College was a private liberal arts college in Black Mountain, North Carolina. It was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier, and several others. The college was ideologically organized around John Dewey's educational philosophy, which emphasized holistic learning and the study of art as central to a liberal arts education.
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Anna "Nan" Shepherd was a Scottish Modernist writer and poet, best known for her seminal mountain memoir, The Living Mountain, based on experiences of hill walking in the Cairngorms. This is noted as an influence by nature writers who include Robert Macfarlane and Richard Mabey. She also wrote poetry and three novels set in small fictional communities in Northern Scotland. The landscape and weather of this area played a major role in her novels and provided a focus for her poetry. Shepherd served as a lecturer in English at the Aberdeen College of Education for most of her working life.
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