Literary Landscapes Archives - The New Territory Magazine

Charles Dickens – Lebanon, Illinois

Charles Dickens in Illinois. Finding places where the whispers of the spirits occasionally break through. Literary Landscapes by Ryan Byrnes.

Harvey Pekar – Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Harvey Pekar Park at Coventry Rd & Euclid Heights Blvd—a modest park honoring the master of Midwestern mundanity. Literary Landscapes by Joseph S. Pete.

Renee Nicole Good – Minneapolis, Minnesota

Renee Nicole Good at 34th Street & Portland Ave—protestors murdered by ICE in the Minneapolis Bloodlands. Literary Landscapes by Ellen Lansky with Greta Gaard.

Stuart Dybek – Chicago, Illinois

Stuart Dybek and the way memories bind us to place. Literary Landscapes by E.N. Couturier.

Danez Smith – St. Paul, Minnesota

Danez Smith & Black Youth Healing Arts Center—what it takes to create spaces for poets of color to thrive. Literary Landscapes by Chandler Peters-DuRose.

Mark Twain – Hannibal, Missouri

Discerning fact from fiction regarding Hannibal’s most famous resident. Literary Landscapes by Cindy Lovell.

Mark Twain – Elmira, New York

The quirky characters and social dynamics of Twain’s time in Elmira, New York. Literary Landscapes by Matt Seybold.

Mark Twain – Hartford, Connecticut

Twain’s Midwestern books, written in his beautiful and eccentric Hartford home. Literary Landscapes by Jacques Lamarre.

Mark Twain – London, England

A ruined corner of London that will always be a little paradise for Twain’s ghost. Literary Landscapes by Thomas Ruys Smith.

Mark Twain – London, England

Twain in London, between the upheavals of travel and the resumption of familiar routines. Literary Landscapes by Susan Kumin Harris.

Paul Vasey – Michigan–Ontario

Crossing the border, over and again, compelled by visa regulations, connecting with Vasey’s connection to the river but envying his obliviousness to the barrier.

John G. Niehardt – Branson, Missouri

Best known as a Nebraska poet, Niehardt’s three decades in Branson are marked only by a small boulder with a bronze plaque, sitting on the corner between the Koi Garden Plaza strip mall and the Branson Visitors Center.

Michael Martone – LaPorte County, Indiana

Blending fact and fiction across the ordinary landscapes of northern Indiana. Literary Landscapes by Dawn Burns.

Albert Goldbarth – Wichita, Kansas

Ice skating on the Arkansas River, learning poetry and grief from a venerable teacher, finally finding an elusive line. #LiteraryLandscapes by Amy Barnes.

José Olivarez – Calumet City, Illinois

José Olivarez & Calumet City—maps might make the world legible, but poetry reveals “the little cracks in the totality.” Literary Landscapes by Ava Tomasula y Garcia.