Crossing the border, over and again, compelled by visa regulations, connecting with Vasey’s connection to the river but envying his obliviousness to the barrier.
Paul Vasey – Michigan–Ontario
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John G. Niehardt – Branson, Missouri
Best known as a Nebraska poet, Niehardt’s three decades in Branson are marked only by a small boulder with a bronze plaque, sitting on the corner between the Koi Garden Plaza strip mall and the Branson Visitors Center.
Michael Marton – LaPorte County, Indiana
Michael Martone U.S. Highway 30LaPorte County, Indiana By Dawn Burns “My main interest is in making the ordinary strange and wonderful.” –Michael Martone, interview with David Hoppe, NUVO, 2013 On my basement wall above a small writing desk hangs a three-piece canvas...
Albert Goldbarth – Wichita, Kansas
Ice skating on the Arkansas River, learning poetry and grief from a venerable teacher, finally finding an elusive line. #LiteraryLandscapes by Amy Barnes.
José Olivarez – Calumet City, Illinois
José Olivarez & Calumet City—maps might make the world legible, but poetry reveals “the little cracks in the totality.” Literary Landscapes by Ava Tomasula y Garcia.
On Sunflowers, and Hope, in Times of Drought
On feeling parched in Minnesota.
Toni Morrison – Cleveland, Ohio
Euclid Ave mural—on Black women lifting up one another, because as Morrison said, “the function of freedom is to free someone else.”
Toni Morrison – Chesapeake Bay, Maryland
Driving along the Bay, trying to experience the place concretely, seeing the links between past and present, proximate and distant.
Toni Morrison – Lorain, Ohio
Toni Morrison’s childhood home—Black American resilience amidst the shared, cruel landscapes of white supremacy in Lorain, OH.
Toni Morrison – West Point, New York
Speaking to Plebes, Morrison makes “the auditorium, alive with the resonance of storytelling,” a space of racial belonging.
Toni Morrison – Lorain, Ohio
Lakeview Park—exploring the traumas experienced by young Black girls in The Bluest Eye and reclaiming the park as a space for healing.
The New Territory Magazine Receives Missouri Humanities Grant to Support The Pageturner: Hearing Place Conference in Weston September 22
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Humanities recently awarded $5,000 to The New Territory Magazine, a regional print magazine covering Lower Midwest nature and culture, to support The Pageturner 2024: Hearing Place, an intimate ideas conference for Midwesterners to learn and...
Bienvenido Santos – Wichita, Kansas
Bienvenido Santos & Ablah Library—seeing ghosts in the palimpsest of Wichita State University.
William Inge – Independence, Kansas
William Inge & Riverside Park—a picnic next to the Verdigris River, in real life and on stage.
Sarah Smarsh – Murdock, Kansas
Sarah Smarsh & rural Kingman County—the soil of the Kansas prairie and the complex, contradictory stories we tell about ourselves.
Miriam Davis Colt – Allen County, Kansas
Miriam Davis Colt & the Vegetarian Settlement Company—choosing what to carry and what to leave behind.
Ben Lerner – Topeka, Kansas
Ben Lerner & Topeka High School—a teenage debate champion looks down on generations of high school students.
Jotham Meeker – Franklin County, Kansas
Jotham Meeker & the California Road—migrant traces at the Ottawa Mission cemetery.
Truman Capote – Garden City, Kansas
Truman Capote & Garden City, KS—new to town to research In Cold Blood, Capote and Harper Lee are invited to Christmas dinner.
Ron Wilson – Manhattan, Kansas
Ron Wilson & Lazy T Ranch—the Poet Laureate of Kansas talking poetry and connection with the state’s Poet Lariat.
Nellie Maxey – Kinsley, Kansas
Nellie Maxey & Sod House Museum—moving cross-country to Kinsley, KS, 100 years apart.
Niki Smith – Junction City, Kansas
Niki Smith & Rock Springs Ranch—a children’s librarian on the healing possibilities of 4-H camp, in both real life and graphic novels.
Is This the World We Really Want?
Art, Tech and Queer coming-of-middle-age in Forget I Told You This
A Beauty Parlor, a Movie Theater and a Bunch of Sofas
The intimate literary spaces of The Unbound Book Festival
Friendly Folk at the Oddball Hoedown Contra Dance
A tradition based on socializing starts to bring Kansas citians back together