Sep 30, 2023 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Oklahoma, Volume 12
R. A. Lafferty 1724 S. Trenton Ave.Tulsa, Oklahoma By Michael Helsem “Everything, including dreams, is meteorological.” – R. A. Lafferty, ”Narrow Valley” A couple of years ago, my wife and I were visiting my young niece and her husband in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they...
Feb 22, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Novelists, Oklahoma, Volume 7
Meridel Le Sueur Miner’s Shack Picher, Oklahoma By Joe Schiller The shacks huddled haphazard and crosswise, scattered between the chat piles. Leaky roofs, knotholes, and loose-swinging doors let the dust in on any decent breeze. In Picher, Oklahoma, nobody built for...
Oct 6, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Oklahoma, Volume 5
S.E. HINTON CrutchfieldTulsa, Oklahoma By Caleb Freeman One day in the winter of 1981, when the film adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel The Outsiders was still in pre-production, Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola, the film’s director, rode double on a...
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...
