Oct 18, 2024 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 15, Writers of Color
Toni Morrison Euclid Ave. Mural Cleveland, Ohio By Monique Wingard In the tapestry of life, sometimes the threads that pull us away are the same ones that guide us back home. In 2013, the job market in Cleveland had left me feeling shut out, unwanted, unworthy. I hit...
Oct 18, 2024 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 15, Writers of Color
Toni Morrison Chesapeake Bay Northeast Maryland By Alice Sundman We are driving southward on I-95, toward Washington, D.C. I am trying to take in the landscape around us, a landscape I have never seen before, but that I still, somehow, know in my mind. Here, in the...
Oct 18, 2024 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 15, Writers of Color
Toni Morrison Childhood Home Lorain, Ohio By Tara L. Conley “This region (Lorain, Elyria, Oberlin) is not like it was when I lived here, but in a way it doesn’t matter because home is a memory and companions and/or friends who share the memory. But equally important...
Oct 18, 2024 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 15, Writers of Color
Toni Morrison Lakeview Park Lorain, Ohio By Ashley Burge As a teenager, I entered what Toni Morrison calls her narrative “village” through her first book, The Bluest Eye (1970), and I was pleased to see three young Black girls traverse the familiar experiences of home...
Dec 18, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 10
Sherwood Anderson The Old Topliff and Ely PlantElyria, Ohio By Doug Sheldon Sherwood Anderson’s desertion of everything Elyrian was the first literary myth I swallowed whole. A counselor and I were walking along the railroad tracks that divided the north and south...
Oct 6, 2021 | Graves, Literary Landscapes, Ohio, Poets, Volume 5
SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT William Henry Harrison TombNorth Bend, Ohio By Sean Andres It’s not hard to find something of historical significance in the Cincinnati area, but many people don’t even think about North Bend. The town was founded by John Cleves Symmes,...
