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 | Author Houses, Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 5, Writers of Color
SANDRA CISNEROS 1525 N. Campbell Ave.Chicago, Illinois By Olga L. Herrera I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s in the Little Village neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago. At the time, the area was in transition between Eastern Europeans leaving for the suburbs...
Oct 5, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Oklahoma, Volume 3, Writers of Color
JOHN JOSEPH MATHEWS Tallgrass Prairie PreserveOsage County, Oklahoma By Mason Whitehorn Powell “Three ridges roughly boat-shaped push their prows south into the sea of prairie.” The opening lines of Talking to the Moon by Osage author John Joseph...
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...
