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Zitkála-Šá – Richmond, Indiana

Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Schools, Volume 1, Writers of Color

Earlham Hall — Leah Milne on alienation, determination, and Zitkála-Šá’s time in Richmond, Indiana.

William Gass – St. Louis, Missouri

Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Novelists, Volume 1

Devin Thomas O’Shea on everyday hatreds, inside and outside William Gass’s The Tunnel.

Naomi Shihab Nye – Ferguson, Missouri

Literary Landscapes, Poets, Schools, Volume 1, Writers of Color

Central Elementary—Tayler Fox on Naomi Shihab Nye and the effects of imposed divisions in Ferguson, Missouri.

Henry Bellamann – Fulton, Missouri

Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Novelists, Volume 3

Henry Bellamann Brick District PlayhouseFulton, Missouri By Alex Dzurick The 1940 novel Kings Row once so offended residents of Fulton, Missouri, that you couldn’t find a copy on the shelves of the local library. You could, however, in the very same town, find a copy...

Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi

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At the newspaper where I worked in college, we were taught that a story’s lead was a story’s everything—This. Happened. The lead was the whole and the start, an incision through which a writer’s needle and thread might penetrate, stringing along all the details to...

Literary Landscapes

Blog, Call for Submissions, Here, Literature, Midwest

Is there a Midwestern author or book that you love? Have you visited their home or made a pilgrimage to their birthplace? Write about that experience!

Hard Truths

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Marc McKee’s voice, as it rings through Consolationeer, is equal parts abstract artist, hi-fidelity folk singer, and postmodern priest. The fourth and latest poetry collection from the University of Missouri professor sums our modern spiritual plagues: the desire to...