Oct 5, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Poets, Volume 3, Writers of Color
ROBERT HAYDEN Paradise ValleyDetroit, Michigan By Ayesha K. Hardison Robert Hayden’s poems are artifacts from a long-gone yet storied neighborhood in Detroit. He grew up in Paradise Valley, the near east side commercial district adjacent to the more residential...
Sep 17, 2021 | Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Poets, Volume 2, Writers of Color
Langston Hughes Woodland ParkLawrence, Kansas By John Edgar Tidwell In the weeks leading up to August 19, 1910, all the children in Lawrence, Kansas, were aglow with excitement and energy. To honor the birthday of Editor J. Leeford Brady, the Lawrence Daily Journal...
Sep 11, 2021 | Graves, Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Poets, Volume 1
Edgar Lee Masters Ann Rutledge’s GravePetersburg, Illinois By Jason Stacy As a boy, I found it unsettling that Edgar Lee Masters anthologized the dead in an Illinois cemetery that never existed. Spoon River Anthology’s ghosts haunted the same rich Illinois soil I...
Sep 11, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Poets, Schools, Volume 1, Writers of Color
Naomi Shihab Nye Central Elementary SchoolFerguson, Missouri By Taylor Fox There’s a haunted feeling that comes with walking around an empty schoolyard. Barren playgrounds and darkened windows convey emptiness, dejection. It’s unnatural for playgrounds to go quiet....
