Oct 6, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 4
WILLA CATHER The MesaTaos, New Mexico By Tracy Tucker I am an American pilgrim. I’ve visited a hundred holy sites trying to find my way, seeking an intercession, hoping to meet my gods in the air. I’ve found myself at Walden Pond, naturally, and the stone wall at...
Oct 5, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 4
WILLA CATHER Glacier Creek PreserveOmaha, Nebraska By Conor Gearin “The red of the grass made all the great prairie the color of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up.” One of Willa Cather’s most famous lines, from the 1918 novel My...
Oct 5, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nebraska, Poets, Volume 3
TED KOOSER Gravel RoadsSeward County, Nebraska By Matt Miller For all his stature as former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser remains a poet of Nebraska, and so he is a poet of gravel roads. Consider “So This Is Nebraska,” his best-known poem about his home...
Sep 17, 2021 | Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Poets, Volume 2, Writers of Color
Langston Hughes Woodland ParkLawrence, Kansas By John Edgar Tidwell In the weeks leading up to August 19, 1910, all the children in Lawrence, Kansas, were aglow with excitement and energy. To honor the birthday of Editor J. Leeford Brady, the Lawrence Daily Journal...
