Lakeview Park—exploring the traumas experienced by young Black girls in The Bluest Eye and reclaiming the park as a space for healing.
Toni Morrison – Lorain, Ohio
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Kathleen Finneran – St. Louis, Missouri
Kathleen Finneran & North County, St. Louis—a kaleidoscopic view of how backyards hold the memories of lives lived through raging grief and easy joy.
Lorine Niedecker – Blackhawk Island, Wisconsin
Lorine Niedecker’s River Cabin—America’s greatest unknown poet, writing in a riverside cabin that appears to shrug off the idea of annual flooding.
Maya Angelou – Stamps, Arkansas
Maya Angelou & the memorial at Lake June—“picturing the red clay that Maya Angelou once walked across, imagining the breeze she once breathed.”
S.E. Hinton – Tulsa, Oklahoma
S.E. Hinton & Crutchfield—Tulsa’s part in “a story about boundary lines, divisions that we create and perpetuate.”
Willa Cather – Taos, New Mexico
Willa Cather & the mesa outside Taos, New Mexico—where “the desert is everything and nothing. God without men.”
Willa Cather – Red Cloud, Nebraska
Willa Cather & the Pavelka Farmstead—where, writes Christine Pivovar, “I could imagine myself as one of Ántonia’s daughters, kneading the dough for kolaches.”
Willa Cather – Omaha, Nebraska
Willa Cather & Glacier Creek Preserve—where the grass “reflects the fire of a Great Plains sunset.”
Willa Cather – Jaffrey, New Hampshire
Willa Cather & the Old Burying Ground of Jaffrey, New Hampshire—where she was, finally, “dissolved into something complete and great.”
Willa Cather – Chicago, Illinois
Willa Cather & the Fine Arts Building—a respite from the “blur of smoke and wind and noise” in the capital of the Middle Empire.
Kate Chopin – St. Louis, Missouri
Literary Landscapes: 4232 McPherson Ave.—Michaella A. Thornton on parenting, criticism, and Kate Chopin’s final home.
Helen Hooven Santmyer – Xenia, Ohio
Greene County Courthouse — Jacob Bruggeman on civic pride and the settler colonial legacy of Helen Hooven Santmyer’s Xenia, Ohio.
Zitkála-Šá – Richmond, Indiana
Earlham Hall — Leah Milne on alienation, determination, and Zitkála-Šá’s time in Richmond, Indiana.
Naomi Shihab Nye – Ferguson, Missouri
Central Elementary—Tayler Fox on Naomi Shihab Nye and the effects of imposed divisions in Ferguson, Missouri.