Jan 21, 2025 | Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Volume 16
Paul Vasey Ambassador BridgeMichigan–Ontario By Ramya Swayamprakash I grew up in India. I have now lived in the United States, and in Michigan, for almost a decade. But I cannot claim to be from Michigan or India — it is hard to call a place your home when your...
Jan 21, 2025 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nebraska, Nebraska, Volume 16
John G. Niehardt Koi Garden PlazaBranson, Missouri By Matt Miller Aside from his work as the editor of Black Elk Speaks, the poet John G. Neihardt is best known as the perpetual poet laureate of Nebraska — the legislature conferred that title upon him in 1921 and...
Jan 21, 2025 | Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 16
Michael Martone U.S. Highway 30LaPorte County, Indiana By Dawn Burns “My main interest is in making the ordinary strange and wonderful.” –Michael Martone, interview with David Hoppe, NUVO, 2013 On my basement wall above a small writing desk hangs a three-piece canvas...
Jan 21, 2025 | Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Volume 16
Albert Goldbarth Arkansas RiverWichita, Kansas By Amy Barnes For thirty years, I’ve had the closing line of a poem stuck in my head: “snow fills all the empty graves.” My creative writing teacher at Wichita State University read the poem to an eager circle of young...
Jan 21, 2025 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Poets, Volume 16, Writers of Color
José Olivarez 358 Bus Stop, Torrence Ave. & Pulaski Rd.Calumet City, Illinois By Ava Tomasula y Garcia “forgive my geography, it’s true i’m obsessed with maps.” –José Olivarez, “Wherever I’m at That Land Is Chicago” The Calumet Region coheres into...
