Dec 18, 2022 | Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Novelists, Poets, Volume 10, Writers of Color
Gordon Parks Marmaton RiverFort Scott, Kansas By Jeromiah Taylor The grass is fuchsia, the sky bluntly cold, and the horizon swathed in haze. It is late November on the Osage Plains. In southeast Kansas, the distinction between grassland and woodland, or plain and...
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...
Feb 22, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Novelists, Oklahoma, Volume 7
Meridel Le Sueur Miner’s Shack Picher, Oklahoma By Joe Schiller The shacks huddled haphazard and crosswise, scattered between the chat piles. Leaky roofs, knotholes, and loose-swinging doors let the dust in on any decent breeze. In Picher, Oklahoma, nobody built for...
Oct 17, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 6, Wisconsin
Aldo Leopold The Leopold ShackBaraboo, Wisconsin By Marc Seals I am not a Midwestern native — I was raised in the woods and swamps of north Florida, far from the Driftless Region of Wisconsin (where I now live). As a result, I was not familiar with Aldo Leopold or his...
Sep 17, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nonfiction, Novelists, Personal Essay, Volume 2, Writers of Color
William Least Heat-Moon River-Horse PavilionColumbia, Missouri By Kit Salter In March 1995, my wife Cathy and I went to wish Godspeed to Columbia, Missouri, resident William Lewis Trogdon as he was leaving for New York City to begin a 103-day nautical journey, which...
