Justin Hamm Whetstone Creek Conservation AreaCallaway County, Missouri By Tom Darin Liskey The plainspoken Midwestern majesty of Justin Hamm’s poetry helped me realize that even though I had seen the world, I’d never really seen my hometown. The day after I graduated...
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Ross Gay – Bloomington, Indiana
Ross Gay Sample GatesBloomington, Indiana By Ryan Kegley It is just past dawn, and I am standing in the middle of the Bloomington Community Orchard, the one-acre edible public park that poet, professor, gardener, and self-proclaimed joyologist Ross Gay co-founded. It...
B.H. Fairchild – Medicine Lodge, Kansas
“US Route 160 traversing the Red Hills of Barber County, Kansas, facing west,” courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Abenneth, shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
James Whitcomb Riley – Indianapolis, Indiana
Photo courtesy of the Bass Photo Collection, Indiana Historical Society.
Renee Nicole Good – Minneapolis, Minnesota
Renee Nicole Good at 34th Street & Portland Ave—protestors murdered by ICE in the Minneapolis Bloodlands. Literary Landscapes by Ellen Lansky with Greta Gaard.
Danez Smith – St. Paul, Minnesota
Danez Smith & Black Youth Healing Arts Center—what it takes to create spaces for poets of color to thrive. Literary Landscapes by Chandler Peters-DuRose.
An Epic Poet’s “Fatal Row” with “Ezrapoundism”
Biography of Black Elk Speaks author is an underdog story unafraid to show stark realities.
Hard Truths
Marc McKee’s voice, as it rings through Consolationeer, is equal parts abstract artist, hi-fidelity folk singer, and postmodern priest. The fourth and latest poetry collection from the University of Missouri professor sums our modern spiritual plagues: the desire to...







