{"id":2,"date":"2014-11-03T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T08:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooncityreview.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-11-07T21:54:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T21:54:35","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.mooncityreview.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Moon City Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where does the name “Moon City” come from? The history of Springfield, Missouri is a tale of two cities, at least for a very brief time. A dispute over where the\u00a0old Atlantic and Pacific Railroad would\u00a0place the depot and some spirited wrangling by local entrepreneurs led to “Old Town” Springfield gaining a new neighbor to the immediate north. \u00a0The newcomer got the depot, and a bitter rivalry was born. Derisively called “Moon City,” what is now called North Springfield thrived despite the comical predictions tied to the new city’s can-do attitude.\u00a0\u00a0Here is what James S. Baumlin wrote about Moon City in the 2009 Moon City Review<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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In 1887, the\u00a0separate townspeople voted to merge, making for a single\u00a0Springfield. And Holcombe prophesied aright: if asked,\u00a0few Springfieldians today could \u201cpoint out the line of\u00a0demarcation\u201d\u2014though aptly named Division Street\u2014mainly\u00a0because the story has been as good as forgotten.<\/p>\n

And now for the moral of this story. Whether as a town or\u00a0as a text, \u201cMoon City\u201d has always been an improvisation. It\u00a0was, and it remains, a convenient fiction\u2014an invention of\u00a0entrepreneurs, a flight of fancy, a slap in the face of \u201cold\u00a0town\u201d expectations, an upstart, Ozarks-style declaration.\u00a0In its status as a literary-artistic annual (and as an academic\u00a0small press of the same name), Moon City remains a mythic\u00a0place, forever a \u201cnew town.\u201d Like the first railroad, it citifies\u00a0an early pioneer settlement, bringing in fresh blood. Moon\u00a0City remains a \u201cplace\u201d (a press, a book annual) where Ozarks\u00a0history and literary-artistic culture can be both remembered\u00a0and reconstructed, engaging back-and-forth with the rest\u00a0(and best) of the world \u201cout there,\u201d bringing newcomers\u00a0in, sending our own out and abroad, all interconnected\u2014incorporated, as it were\u2014through mutual interests in poetry,\u00a0story, art, and criticism. The communities described in the\u00a0beginning of this introduction find confirmation, if only\u00a0symbolically so, in this conscious act of naming.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Moon City Review<\/em> is now open for submissions of fiction, flash fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, graphic narrative, and translations. Please select the Submit tab to read more about how to submit.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Where does the name “Moon City” come from? The history of Springfield, Missouri is a tale of two cities, at least for a very brief time. A dispute over where the\u00a0old Atlantic and Pacific Railroad would\u00a0place the depot and some spirited wrangling by local entrepreneurs led to “Old Town” Springfield gaining a new neighbor to … Continue reading About Moon City Review<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mooncityreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mooncityreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mooncityreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mooncityreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mooncityreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mooncityreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"http:\/\/www.mooncityreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mooncityreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}