Kansas Archives - The New Territory Magazine

Bienvenido Santos – Wichita, Kansas

Bienvenido Santos & Ablah Library—seeing ghosts in the palimpsest of Wichita State University.

William Inge – Independence, Kansas

William Inge & Riverside Park—a picnic next to the Verdigris River, in real life and on stage.

Sarah Smarsh – Murdock, Kansas

Sarah Smarsh & rural Kingman County—the soil of the Kansas prairie and the complex, contradictory stories we tell about ourselves.

Miriam Davis Colt – Allen County, Kansas

Miriam Davis Colt & the Vegetarian Settlement Company—choosing what to carry and what to leave behind.

Ben Lerner – Topeka, Kansas

Ben Lerner & Topeka High School—a teenage debate champion looks down on generations of high school students.

Jotham Meeker – Franklin County, Kansas

Jotham Meeker & the California Road—migrant traces at the Ottawa Mission cemetery.

Truman Capote – Garden City, Kansas

Truman Capote & Garden City, KS—new to town to research In Cold Blood, Capote and Harper Lee are invited to Christmas dinner.

Ron Wilson – Manhattan, Kansas

Ron Wilson & Lazy T Ranch—the Poet Laureate of Kansas talking poetry and connection with the state’s Poet Lariat.

Nellie Maxey – Kinsley, Kansas

Nellie Maxey & Sod House Museum—moving cross-country to Kinsley, KS, 100 years apart.

Niki Smith – Junction City, Kansas

Niki Smith & Rock Springs Ranch—a children’s librarian on the healing possibilities of 4-H camp, in both real life and graphic novels.

High Plains Public Radio, in Partnership with The New Territory Magazine, Receives Humanities Kansas Grant to Support Literary Landscapes

Building on The NT’s Literary Landscapes series, which hosts 60 personal essays on places of Midwestern literature, this grant project invites Kansans to explore the present and ponder future possibilities for the region.

Kelly Yarbrough, 2023 Artist

Practice rooted in an ecosystem that includes mixed media drawing, arts administration and creating meaningful opportunities for humans to engage with their environment.

Allysa Rebar, 2023 Artist

While visually united by natural subjects, her paintings are also infused with emotions of the human condition.

Luke Townsend, 2023 Artist

“There’s a sweet spot every evening when the output of light from both the environment and artificially sync-up perfectly, and was grateful to find a spot fluttering with energy.”

Lisa Grossman, 2023 Artist

“Painting on location in the expansive grasslands has enthralled me ever since and my work has been an exploration of what it feels like to be in that space.”

Haley Rains, 2023 Artist

“…We are very much present, active, evolving, and living in full color.”

Angela Müller, 2023 Artist

Art by Angela Müller 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. Featured artwork in our live art auction: “Moon with Clouds” For Moon with Clouds, I wanted to...

Gordon Parks – Fort Scott, Kansas

Gordon Parks & the Marmaton River—walking the cracked bottom of the gulch, following the “documentarian of a watershed century.”

James Tate – Pittsburg, Kansas

James Tate Cow Creek CrossingPittsburg, Kansas By Leslie VonHolten Each James Tate poem presents itself like a welcoming trailhead — happy, sunshiney even. It is not until you are deep in the woods of it all before you sense the lurking weirdness. For example, in “The...