May 4, 2024 | Author Houses, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction
Nellie Maxey Edwards County Historical Museum and Sod HouseKinsley, Kansas By Joan Weaver Starting in Washington, D.C., you can drive U.S. Highway 50 all the way to San Francisco. Along the way is the small Kansas town of Kinsley with a towering sign that announces...
Oct 16, 2023 | Kansas, The Pageturner
Art by Kelly Yarbrough 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: “Sumac Field” Kelly Yarbrough (b. Plano, TX)...
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...
Oct 5, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 4
WILLA CATHER Pavelka FarmsteadRed Cloud, Nebraska By Christine Pivovar Willa Cather’s My Ántonia (1918) contains the first written use of the word “kolaches” in English, according to the OED. It comes in at the end of the novel, when the narrator, Jim,...
Oct 5, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 4
WILLA CATHER Glacier Creek PreserveOmaha, Nebraska By Conor Gearin “The red of the grass made all the great prairie the color of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up.” One of Willa Cather’s most famous lines, from the 1918 novel My...
