Dec 18, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 10
Sherwood Anderson The Old Topliff and Ely PlantElyria, Ohio By Doug Sheldon Sherwood Anderson’s desertion of everything Elyrian was the first literary myth I swallowed whole. A counselor and I were walking along the railroad tracks that divided the north and south...
May 25, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 8, Wisconsin
August Derleth Rail BridgeSauk City, Wisconsin By Kassie Jo Baron Sauk City, Wisconsin, is best known as the home of the first Culver’s. Then probably the annual Cow Chip Throw, where residents spend Labor Day weekend seeing who can throw dried cow poop the farthest....
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...
