When a friend suggested we take a trip to Southeast Oklahoma to attend a Bigfoot conference, I laughed. What started as a joke grew into curiosity and, ultimately, a plan. Committing to attend was a game of chicken, and yet, as the warm October weekend approached, no...
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R. A. Lafferty – Tulsa, Oklahoma
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...
Meridel Le Sueur – Picher, Oklahoma
Meridel Le Sueur & a miner’s shack—how investigating environmental damage reveals “the hopeful and radical potential of regionalism and place.”
S.E. Hinton – Tulsa, Oklahoma
S.E. Hinton & Crutchfield—Tulsa’s part in “a story about boundary lines, divisions that we create and perpetuate.”
John Joseph Mathews – Osage County, Oklahoma
LiteraryLandscapes: Tallgrass Prairie Preserve—Mason Whitehorn Powell on John Joseph Mathews, Osage identity, and becoming a part of the balance in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.