Oct 6, 2021 | Arkansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Poets, Volume 5
MAYA ANGELOU Angelou MemorialStamps, Arkansas By Greer Veon Despite living in southwest Arkansas most of my life, my first visit to Stamps was with my parents in August 2018. We made the trip on a Sunday afternoon before my flight back north the following...
Oct 6, 2021 | Author Houses, Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 5, Writers of Color
SANDRA CISNEROS 1525 N. Campbell Ave.Chicago, Illinois By Olga L. Herrera I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s in the Little Village neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago. At the time, the area was in transition between Eastern Europeans leaving for the suburbs...
Oct 6, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Oklahoma, Volume 5
S.E. HINTON CrutchfieldTulsa, Oklahoma By Caleb Freeman One day in the winter of 1981, when the film adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel The Outsiders was still in pre-production, Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola, the film’s director, rode double on a...
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 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 4
WILLA CATHER Pavelka FarmsteadRed Cloud, Nebraska By Christine Pivovar Willa Cather’s My Ántonia (1918) contains the first written use of the word “kolaches” in English, according to the OED. It comes in at the end of the novel, when the narrator, Jim,...
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...
