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KURT VONNEGUT The Kurt Vonnegut Museum & LibraryIndianapolis, IN By Laura Beadling Like many, I found and loved Kurt Vonnegut somewhere in my miserable teenage years. Slaughterhouse-Five is now one of my favorite novels to teach, whether in Great American Books or...
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...
LiteraryLandscapes: Tallgrass Prairie Preserve—Mason Whitehorn Powell on John Joseph Mathews, Osage identity, and becoming a part of the balance in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
LiteraryLandscapes: Paradise Valley—Ayesha K. Hardison on artistic signs and negative space in Robert Hayden’s Detroit, Michigan.
Literary Landscapes: River-Horse Pavilion—Kit Salter on departure, preservation, and William Least Heat-Moon’s journeys across America.
Literary Landscapes: John Edgar Tidwell on Langston Hughes, the merry-go-round, and social segregation in Lawrence, KS
Literary Landscapes: 4232 McPherson Ave.—Michaella A. Thornton on parenting, criticism, and Kate Chopin’s final home.
599 Summit Ave.—Ross K. Tangedal on transitions, mediocrity, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s St. Paul, glittering with the newness of life.
Greene County Courthouse — Jacob Bruggeman on civic pride and the settler colonial legacy of Helen Hooven Santmyer’s Xenia, Ohio.
Wright Morris Boyhood Home, Central City — Nathan Tye on “the ache of a nameless longing” that comes with inhabiting a worn-over world.
Ann Rutledge’s Grave—Jason Stacy on lost love, Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology, and exhuming the legends of Petersburg, Illinois.
Earlham Hall — Leah Milne on alienation, determination, and Zitkála-Šá’s time in Richmond, Indiana.
Devin Thomas O’Shea on everyday hatreds, inside and outside William Gass’s The Tunnel.
Central Elementary—Tayler Fox on Naomi Shihab Nye and the effects of imposed divisions in Ferguson, Missouri.
Henry Bellamann Brick District PlayhouseFulton, Missouri By Alex Dzurick The 1940 novel Kings Row once so offended residents of Fulton, Missouri, that you couldn’t find a copy on the shelves of the local library. You could, however, in the very same town, find a copy...