Sep 30, 2023 | Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 12, Writers of Color
Sojourner Truth Harmonia Cemetery Battle Creek, Michigan By Jeffrey Insko In the heart of downtown Battle Creek, Michigan, near the bank of the Kalamazoo River, stands a memorial statue of the abolitionist activist and orator Sojourner Truth. Twelve feet tall,...
Dec 18, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Volume 10, Wisconsin, Writers of Color
Rachel Fort CrawfordPrairie du Chien, WI By Christy Clark-Pujara On November 4, 1834, a twenty-year-old “mulatto” woman named Rachel filed a freedom suit in St. Louis, Missouri. She claimed that a military officer named Thomas Stockton held her in slavery at Fort...
Dec 18, 2022 | Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Novelists, Poets, Volume 10, Writers of Color
Gordon Parks Marmaton RiverFort Scott, Kansas By Jeromiah Taylor The grass is fuchsia, the sky bluntly cold, and the horizon swathed in haze. It is late November on the Osage Plains. In southeast Kansas, the distinction between grassland and woodland, or plain and...
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 | 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...
May 25, 2022 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 8, Writers of Color
Richard Wright 4831 S. Vincennes Ave.Chicago, Illinois By Joseph S. Pete Powell’s Books used to have a few locations in Chicago, none anywhere near as large as the fabled city block full of books in Portland. Now only its venerable Hyde Park bookstore remains, but I...
