Oct 18, 2024 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 15, Writers of Color
Toni Morrison Lakeview Park Lorain, Ohio By Ashley Burge As a teenager, I entered what Toni Morrison calls her narrative “village” through her first book, The Bluest Eye (1970), and I was pleased to see three young Black girls traverse the familiar experiences of home...
Jul 11, 2024 | Blog, Press Release
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Humanities recently awarded $5,000 to The New Territory Magazine, a regional print magazine covering Lower Midwest nature and culture, to support The Pageturner 2024: Hearing Place, an intimate ideas conference for Midwesterners to learn and...
May 9, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Schools, Volume 14
Bienvenido Santos Ablah Library Wichita, Kansas By Abby Bayani-Heitzman 🎧 Listen at HPPR Filipino American writer Bienvenido “Ben” N. Santos had a complicated relationship with the Midwest. He first arrived in the United States in 1941 as a pensionado, or...
May 9, 2024 | Drama, Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Volume 14
William Inge Riverside Park Independence, Kansas By Autumn Finley 🎧 Listen at HPPR Growing up in a flyover state, I never much considered the literary merit of my home in the southeast corner of Kansas. Apart from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie,...
May 9, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 14
Sarah Smarsh Rural Kingman County Murdock, Kansas By Taylor Krueger 🎧 Listen at HPPR During Sarah Smarsh’s childhood, driven by poverty and necessity, she moved frequently between the Kansas prairie and nearby metropolitan Wichita. Born on the precipice of the 1980s...
