Nov 11, 2024 | Here, Minnesota, Nebraska
This is the longer version of “Of Sunflowers, and Hope, in Times of Drought,” which first appeared in the Here section of Issue 14, printed July 2023. It is late July 2021. I have driven my daughter an hour northwest to reach swathes of Minnesota sunflowers, the...
Sep 11, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 2
Helen Hooven Santmyer Greene County CourthouseXenia, Ohio By Jacob A. Bruggeman I first visited Xenia, Ohio, a small city in the state’s southwestern corner, on a hot May afternoon in 2018. Headed north from Cincinnati on Interstate 71, smoke started rising out from...
