Oct 19, 2023 | Illinois, The Pageturner
Art by Marika Josephson is featured in The New Territory Magazine’s Pageturner Fundraiser on October 21, 2023. Buy tickets here to participate in the live and silent auctions. To place a proxy bid, please email tina[at]newterritorymag.com Featured artwork in our...
May 2, 2023 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Poets, Volume 11
Lisel Mueller 27240 N. Longwood Dr. Forest Haven, Illinois By Jenny Mueller “Our trees are aspens, but people / mistake them for birches” — so begins Lisel Mueller’s “Another Version,” set in 1970s Midwestern suburbia. This proves to be a territory of error. After...
Sep 7, 2022 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 9, Writers of Color
Hugo Martinez-Serros South Chicago City DumpChicago, IL By Emiliano Aguilar Chicago’s South Side is littered with the remains of its industrial past. From the façade of the former US Steel South Works to sites bustling with activity, such as the Pullman National...
Sep 7, 2022 | Graves, Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Volume 9
Elijah Lovejoy Lovejoy State MemorialAlton, IL By Evan Allen Wood Elijah Parish Lovejoy was shot by members of a mob and succumbed to his wounds on the evening of November 7, 1837, in Alton, Illinois. Decades later, the community erected a 110-foot-tall monument...
Oct 17, 2021 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Schools, Volume 6
MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Blackburn CollegeCarlinville, Illinois By Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey As professors in the English department at Blackburn College, we have always been aware of the legacy of the college’s most famed writer, Mary Hunter Austin, who was born in...
Oct 17, 2021 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Poets, Volume 6, Writers of Color
GWENDOLYN BROOKS South Side Community Art CenterChicago, Illinois By Angie Chatman 4724 South Evans Avenue was located a block south of Cottage Grove, one of the main thoroughfares through the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. The three-flat building, now...
