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JEFFERSON CITY – The New Territory Magazine recently added three new directors to its nonprofit board: Jeff Schaeperkoetter, Steve Gerkin, and Pete Dulin. The board, which now consists of 10 people, supports the organization's mission to advocate and foster love and...
Living folk heroes from southwest Missouri revive half-century-old tunes of their homeland
“Barrett-Fox allows a group so widely despised to emerge as human and complicated like the rest of us.”
Building on The NT’s Literary Landscapes series, which hosts 60 personal essays on places of Midwestern literature, this grant project invites Kansans to explore the present and ponder future possibilities for the region.
“My art follows a similar tack to [my brewery], exploring what is unique about southern Illinois utilizing found materials natural to our environment.”
“…even here the line between death and life is thin and easily cracked.”
Practice rooted in an ecosystem that includes mixed media drawing, arts administration and creating meaningful opportunities for humans to engage with their environment.
While visually united by natural subjects, her paintings are also infused with emotions of the human condition.
“There’s a sweet spot every evening when the output of light from both the environment and artificially sync-up perfectly, and was grateful to find a spot fluttering with energy.”
“Painting on location in the expansive grasslands has enthralled me ever since and my work has been an exploration of what it feels like to be in that space.”
“…We are very much present, active, evolving, and living in full color.”
Art by Angela Müller is featured in The New Territory Magazine's Pageturner Fundraiser on October 21, 2023. Buy tickets here to participate in the live and silent auctions. Featured artwork in our live art auction: “Moon with Clouds” For Moon with Clouds, I wanted to...
Clark, a Black socialist who had been collaborating with German radicals in Cincinnati since the days of abolitionism, was well prepared for relationship-building.
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...
Harmonia was biracial, socially lively (it was rumored to be a bastion of free love!), and included a store, a blacksmith shop, and a seminary.
He believed that wandering the woods, studying birds, fishing, and a general curiosity for the natural world could “lift you out of your self-sunken mudbath, the violent mixture of hormones, injuries, melancholy, and dreams of a future you not only couldn’t touch but could scarcely see.”
The most famous writer to ever come out of North Dakota never wrote anything that takes place there.
“My primary hope for the Arts in [the Lower Midwest] requires a shift in perception.”
Thomas Hart Benton Mark Twain National Forest Shell Knob, Missouri By Aaron Hadlow There is a burled oak tree that stands on the knuckle of a ridge finger behind my parent’s house in Shell Knob, Missouri. Despite its disfigurement, the oak is otherwise straight and...
Bonnie Jo Campbell H House Comstock, Michigan By Lisa DuRose The Kalamazoo River flows right through the center of Comstock, Michigan, behind the library and township hall and the 24-hour gas station. Past Merrill Park where people feed bread to ducks. It floods every...
Hunter S. Thompson Churchill Downs Louisville, Kentucky By Charlie Cy In the spring of 1970, thirty-two-year-old writer Hunter S. Thompson returned to his hometown of Louisville to cover the 96th running of the Kentucky Derby for Scanlan’s Monthly. Less than 72 hours...
Lisel Mueller 27240 N. Longwood Dr. Forest Haven, Illinois By Jenny Mueller “Our trees are aspens, but people / mistake them for birches” — so begins Lisel Mueller’s “Another Version,” set in 1970s Midwestern suburbia. This proves to be a territory of error. After...
Tennessee Williams 4633 Westminster Place St. Louis, Missouri By Devin Thomas O’Shea Tennessee Williams called St. Louis “cold, smug, complacent, intolerant, stupid and provincial,” in a 1947 interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, playing the heel to his...
Kathleen Finneran & North County, St. Louis—a kaleidoscopic view of how backyards hold the memories of lives lived through raging grief and easy joy.
Sherwood Anderson & The Old Topliff and Ely Plant—on literary myths, Roof-Fix, and an escape along the railroad tracks in Elyria, OH.