Feb 23, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Minnesota, Poets, Volume 7, Writers of Color
Heid E. Erdrich All My Relations Art Gallery Minneapolis, Minnesota By Elizabeth Wilkinson All My Relations Art Gallery is on Franklin Avenue, 1.1 miles from my house, in the Ventura Village neighborhood of Minneapolis. This section of Franklin Ave is called the...
Oct 17, 2021 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Poets, Volume 6, Writers of Color
GWENDOLYN BROOKS South Side Community Art CenterChicago, Illinois By Angie Chatman 4724 South Evans Avenue was located a block south of Cottage Grove, one of the main thoroughfares through the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. The three-flat building, now...
Oct 17, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Nebraska, Poets, Volume 6, Writers of Color
JAMES EMANUEL Alliance Public LibraryAlliance, Nebraska By Sean Stewart Alliance, Nebraska, does not remember James Emanuel. There is no plaque, no statue. His poetry is not assigned to high school students. Despite the lofty architecture of the public library and...
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 | Graves, Literary Landscapes, Ohio, Poets, Volume 5
SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT William Henry Harrison TombNorth Bend, Ohio By Sean Andres It’s not hard to find something of historical significance in the Cincinnati area, but many people don’t even think about North Bend. The town was founded by John Cleves Symmes,...
Oct 5, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nebraska, Poets, Volume 3
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...
