Oct 17, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Nebraska, Poets, Volume 6, Writers of Color
JAMES EMANUEL Alliance Public LibraryAlliance, Nebraska By Sean Stewart Alliance, Nebraska, does not remember James Emanuel. There is no plaque, no statue. His poetry is not assigned to high school students. Despite the lofty architecture of the public library and...
Sep 17, 2021 | Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Poets, Volume 2, Writers of Color
Langston Hughes Woodland ParkLawrence, Kansas By John Edgar Tidwell In the weeks leading up to August 19, 1910, all the children in Lawrence, Kansas, were aglow with excitement and energy. To honor the birthday of Editor J. Leeford Brady, the Lawrence Daily Journal...
Sep 17, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Minnesota, Novelists, Volume 2
F. Scott Fitzgerald 599 Summit AvenueSt. Paul, Minnesota By Ross K. Tangedal In fall 2016, my wife, CJ, was four months pregnant, and we decided to visit the Minnesota State Fair at the insistence of my cousin Michael, a Minneapolis resident and state fair aficionado....
Sep 11, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 1
Wright Morris Boyhood HomeCentral City, Nebraska By Nathan Tye For Wright Morris, home was both a physical place and emotional ache. Born in Central City, Nebraska, in 1910, Morris made his life elsewhere, but returned to the Platte Valley in his writing and...
Sep 11, 2021 | Graves, Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Poets, Volume 1
Edgar Lee Masters Ann Rutledge’s GravePetersburg, Illinois By Jason Stacy As a boy, I found it unsettling that Edgar Lee Masters anthologized the dead in an Illinois cemetery that never existed. Spoon River Anthology’s ghosts haunted the same rich Illinois soil I...
