Oct 18, 2024 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 15, Writers of Color
Toni Morrison Lakeview Park Lorain, Ohio By Ashley Burge As a teenager, I entered what Toni Morrison calls her narrative “village” through her first book, The Bluest Eye (1970), and I was pleased to see three young Black girls traverse the familiar experiences of home...
Dec 18, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nonfiction, Volume 10
Kathleen Finneran North CountySt. Louis, Missouri By Marina Henke In the middle of winter a red cardinal lands on a birdbath. It sits, jumps onto a kitchen windowsill and flies away. A suburban backyard just north of St. Louis, Missouri. Such is the opening scene, 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...
Oct 6, 2021 | Arkansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Poets, Volume 5
MAYA ANGELOU Angelou MemorialStamps, Arkansas By Greer Veon Despite living in southwest Arkansas most of my life, my first visit to Stamps was with my parents in August 2018. We made the trip on a Sunday afternoon before my flight back north the following...
Oct 6, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Oklahoma, Volume 5
S.E. HINTON CrutchfieldTulsa, Oklahoma By Caleb Freeman One day in the winter of 1981, when the film adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel The Outsiders was still in pre-production, Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola, the film’s director, rode double on a...
