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,...
Sep 30, 2023 | Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Novelists, Volume 12
Jim Harrison Mixed Coniferous ForestOsceola County, Michigan By Camden Burd “What we think of our hometown is our first substantial map of the world,” Jim Harrison wrote in his 2002 memoir, Off to the Side. A hometown takes the mishappen clay of a person and molds...
May 2, 2023 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Novelists, Volume 11
Bonnie Jo Campbell H House Comstock, Michigan By Lisa DuRose The Kalamazoo River flows right through the center of Comstock, Michigan, behind the library and township hall and the 24-hour gas station. Past Merrill Park where people feed bread to ducks. It floods every...
Sep 7, 2022 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 9
John Bartlow Martin Smith Lake CampHerman, MI By Ray E. Boomhower Writing about the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in his classic regional history Call It North Country (1944), John Bartlow Martin described the expanse as “a wild and comparative Scandinavian tract—20,000...
May 25, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Poets, Volume 8
Philip Levine Belle IsleWaawiiyaatanong By Daniel A. Lockhart I’ve come to the river, as one does frequently in Waawiiyaatanong, in the closing weeks of winter. The land has begun to wake up from the snow and the river itself contains patchworks of ice, a south...
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...
