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In this episode of SEMO Spotlight, we speak with Leola Poe, a Public Relations (PR) Major at Southeast Missouri State University who details her future ambitions to use PR and marketing to uplift Black-owned businesses, support community nonprofits, and amplify underrepresented voices through purposeful and professional storytelling.

“With a Ranger’s hat and shovel and a pair of dungarees, you will find him in the forest always sniffin’ at the breeze.” He’s Smokey Bear. Celebrated in song and story for 80 years now, Smokey Bear is the anthropomorphic face of the United States Forest Service, and the agency’s educational crusade against accidental wildfires; the longest-running public service advertising campaign in our history.

The 2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival will be held in person at the Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance on the River Campus of Southeast Missouri State University from May 26 to June 1, 2024. The festival will feature staged readings of five Official Selection full-length plays and ten Official Selection short plays, as well as workshops and seminars on playwriting and new play development.

Australian-born, and Nashville resident musician and multi-talent Anne McCue will play 'Tunes at Twilight' in downtown Cape Girardeau at the rain-out location, Gospel Life Church at 817 Broadway Street.

Jeff Plankenhorn will perform at the Tunes at Twilight event from Old town Cape on Friday, June 14th at 7:00PM.

In this episode of 'Exposition', we speak with Seth Walker —he's the fifth featured performer in the Fall 2025 Series of Tunes at Twilight held by Old Town Cape. Seth Walker plays on Friday, August 29, at the Ivers Square Gazebo at 44 N. Lorimier in Downtown Cape Girardeau, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.

In this episode of 'Exposition', we speak with Doug Deming of Doug Deming & The Jewel Tones, who are the sixth and final featured performers in the Fall 2025 Series of Tunes at Twilight held by Old Town Cape. Doug Deming plays on Friday, September 5, at the Ivers Square Gazebo at 44 N. Lorimier in Downtown Cape Girardeau, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.

In this episode, speak with SEMO Alumni Julie Hecht, who the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has named among its 2025 Regional Teachers of the Year.

In this episode, we speak with two musical theater students, Parker Cobden and his co-star Emily Lantz, who describe their experience balancing their theater major and their upcoming performance as lead actors in Grease: The Musical.

In this episode of SEMO Spotlight, we speak with Brooke DeArman, the Associate Director of International Student Services (PDSO/RO) and International Education and Services. DeArman was recognized by NAFSA, the Association of International Educators, as the 2025 Region IV Superstar.