May 2, 2023 | Author Houses, Drama, Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Volume 11
Tennessee Williams 4633 Westminster Place St. Louis, Missouri By Devin Thomas O’Shea Tennessee Williams called St. Louis “cold, smug, complacent, intolerant, stupid and provincial,” in a 1947 interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, playing the heel to his...
Sep 7, 2022 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Poets, Volume 9, Wisconsin
Lorine Niedecker River CabinBlackhawk Island, WI By Shanley Wells-Rau I was the solitary plovera pencil______for a wing-bone What more solitary place than a small off-grid cabin on an island that’s not really an island jutting into a lake that’s not really a lake. The...
Sep 7, 2022 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nebraska, Nonfiction, Volume 9, Writers of Color
Malcolm X 3448 Pinkney StreetOmaha, Nebraska By Ashley M. Howard My 1980s childhood included reading to my Cabbage Patch Kid in a neon bean bag and practicing my moves so that I could dance with MC Scat Cat. I was (am) a nerd. I loved school. And with exception to the...
Sep 7, 2022 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 9
John Bartlow Martin Smith Lake CampHerman, MI By Ray E. Boomhower Writing about the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in his classic regional history Call It North Country (1944), John Bartlow Martin described the expanse as “a wild and comparative Scandinavian tract—20,000...
May 25, 2022 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 8, Writers of Color
Richard Wright 4831 S. Vincennes Ave.Chicago, Illinois By Joseph S. Pete Powell’s Books used to have a few locations in Chicago, none anywhere near as large as the fabled city block full of books in Portland. Now only its venerable Hyde Park bookstore remains, but I...
May 25, 2022 | Author Houses, Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 8
Lew Wallace Grand Kankakee MarshPorter County, Indiana By Matthew A. Werner Indiana once had one of the greatest natural habitats in North America: the Grand Kankakee Marsh. Author Lew Wallace loved it so much, he kept a houseboat on its thruway, the Kankakee River....
