Oct 18, 2024 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 15, Writers of Color
Toni Morrison Childhood Home Lorain, Ohio By Tara L. Conley “This region (Lorain, Elyria, Oberlin) is not like it was when I lived here, but in a way it doesn’t matter because home is a memory and companions and/or friends who share the memory. But equally important...
May 4, 2024 | Author Houses, Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Poets, Volume 13
Ron Wilson Lazy T Ranch Manhattan, Kansas By Traci Brimhall 🎧 Listen at HPPR Gravel crunches beneath my tires as I approach Lazy T Ranch, home of the Kansas Poet Lariat Ron Wilson. It’s an unseasonably warm February day, and birds punctuate the silence with their...
May 4, 2024 | Author Houses, Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 13
Nellie Maxey Edwards County Historical Museum and Sod HouseKinsley, Kansas By Joan Weaver 🎧 Listen at HPPR Starting in Washington, D.C., you can drive U.S. Highway 50 all the way to San Francisco. Along the way is the small Kansas town of Kinsley with a towering sign...
Sep 30, 2023 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nonfiction, Volume 12, Writers of Color
Peter H. Clark 1909 Annie Malone Dr.St. Louis, Missouri By Marc Blanc Peter H. Clark lived in St. Louis when it felt like its brightest days were still ahead. Relocating from Cincinnati to the north St. Louis neighborhood called the Ville in 1888, the teacher and...
Sep 30, 2023 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Oklahoma, Volume 12
R. A. Lafferty 1724 S. Trenton Ave.Tulsa, Oklahoma By Michael Helsem “Everything, including dreams, is meteorological.” – R. A. Lafferty, ”Narrow Valley” A couple of years ago, my wife and I were visiting my young niece and her husband in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they...
May 2, 2023 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Novelists, Volume 11
Bonnie Jo Campbell H House Comstock, Michigan By Lisa DuRose The Kalamazoo River flows right through the center of Comstock, Michigan, behind the library and township hall and the 24-hour gas station. Past Merrill Park where people feed bread to ducks. It floods every...
