Justin Hamm Whetstone Creek Conservation AreaCallaway County, Missouri By Tom Darin Liskey The plainspoken Midwestern majesty of Justin Hamm’s poetry helped me realize that even though I had seen the world, I’d never really seen my hometown. The day after I graduated...
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Stuart Dybek – Chicago, Illinois
Stuart Dybek 1438 W. 18th St.Chicago, Illinois By Izabella Kimak I have been coming to Chicago for a quarter of a century now, ever since my mother and sisters left Poland for the United States in the early 2000s. Initially, Chicago for me meant the downtown, really....
Ross Gay – Bloomington, Indiana
Ross Gay Sample GatesBloomington, Indiana By Ryan Kegley It is just past dawn, and I am standing in the middle of the Bloomington Community Orchard, the one-acre edible public park that poet, professor, gardener, and self-proclaimed joyologist Ross Gay co-founded. It...
B.H. Fairchild – Medicine Lodge, Kansas
“US Route 160 traversing the Red Hills of Barber County, Kansas, facing west,” courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Abenneth, shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
James Whitcomb Riley – Indianapolis, Indiana
Photo courtesy of the Bass Photo Collection, Indiana Historical Society.




