Sep 30, 2023 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nonfiction, Volume 12, Writers of Color
Peter H. Clark 1909 Annie Malone Dr.St. Louis, Missouri By Marc Blanc Peter H. Clark lived in St. Louis when it felt like its brightest days were still ahead. Relocating from Cincinnati to the north St. Louis neighborhood called the Ville in 1888, the teacher and...
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...
Sep 30, 2023 | Literary Landscapes, North Dakota, Novelists, Volume 12
Louis L’Amour World’s Largest BuffaloJamestown, North Dakota By Sheila Liming The most famous writer to ever come out of North Dakota never wrote anything that takes place there. Louis L’Amour often talked about revisiting his home state, which he left at the age of...
May 25, 2022 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 8, Writers of Color
Richard Wright 4831 S. Vincennes Ave.Chicago, Illinois By Joseph S. Pete Powell’s Books used to have a few locations in Chicago, none anywhere near as large as the fabled city block full of books in Portland. Now only its venerable Hyde Park bookstore remains, but I...
May 25, 2022 | Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Poets, Volume 8
James Tate Cow Creek CrossingPittsburg, Kansas By Leslie VonHolten Each James Tate poem presents itself like a welcoming trailhead — happy, sunshiney even. It is not until you are deep in the woods of it all before you sense the lurking weirdness. For example, in “The...
