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...
May 4, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 13
Niki Smith Rock Springs Ranch Junction City, Kansas By Macy Davis 🎧 Listen at HPPR Niki Smith never names Kansas in The Golden Hour. She doesn’t need to. Every page of the 2021 graphic novel shows Kansas. It starts with the cover, which looks through wheat in the...
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...
Sep 30, 2023 | Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 12, Writers of Color
Sojourner Truth Harmonia Cemetery Battle Creek, Michigan By Jeffrey Insko In the heart of downtown Battle Creek, Michigan, near the bank of the Kalamazoo River, stands a memorial statue of the abolitionist activist and orator Sojourner Truth. Twelve feet tall,...
