Dec 18, 2022 | Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Novelists, Poets, Volume 10, Writers of Color
Gordon Parks Marmaton RiverFort Scott, Kansas By Jeromiah Taylor The grass is fuchsia, the sky bluntly cold, and the horizon swathed in haze. It is late November on the Osage Plains. In southeast Kansas, the distinction between grassland and woodland, or plain and...
Sep 7, 2022 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Poets, Volume 9, Wisconsin
Lorine Niedecker River CabinBlackhawk Island, WI By Shanley Wells-Rau I was the solitary plovera pencil______for a wing-bone What more solitary place than a small off-grid cabin on an island that’s not really an island jutting into a lake that’s not really a lake. The...
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 | Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Poets, Volume 8
Philip Levine Belle IsleWaawiiyaatanong By Daniel A. Lockhart I’ve come to the river, as one does frequently in Waawiiyaatanong, in the closing weeks of winter. The land has begun to wake up from the snow and the river itself contains patchworks of ice, a south...
May 25, 2022 | Author Houses, Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 8
Lew Wallace Grand Kankakee MarshPorter County, Indiana By Matthew A. Werner Indiana once had one of the greatest natural habitats in North America: the Grand Kankakee Marsh. Author Lew Wallace loved it so much, he kept a houseboat on its thruway, the Kankakee River....