Sep 7, 2022 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Poets, Volume 9, Wisconsin
Lorine Niedecker River CabinBlackhawk Island, WI By Shanley Wells-Rau I was the solitary plovera pencil______for a wing-bone What more solitary place than a small off-grid cabin on an island that’s not really an island jutting into a lake that’s not really a lake. The...
Sep 7, 2022 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 9, Writers of Color
Hugo Martinez-Serros South Chicago City DumpChicago, IL By Emiliano Aguilar Chicago’s South Side is littered with the remains of its industrial past. From the façade of the former US Steel South Works to sites bustling with activity, such as the Pullman National...
Sep 7, 2022 | Graves, Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Volume 9
Elijah Lovejoy Lovejoy State MemorialAlton, IL By Evan Allen Wood Elijah Parish Lovejoy was shot by members of a mob and succumbed to his wounds on the evening of November 7, 1837, in Alton, Illinois. Decades later, the community erected a 110-foot-tall monument...
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...
May 25, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 8, Wisconsin
August Derleth Rail BridgeSauk City, Wisconsin By Kassie Jo Baron Sauk City, Wisconsin, is best known as the home of the first Culver’s. Then probably the annual Cow Chip Throw, where residents spend Labor Day weekend seeing who can throw dried cow poop the farthest....
