About Ryan Schnurr

Ryan Schnurr is editor of Belt Magazine. His first book, In the Watershed, is out now.

Pulling

By Megan Neville Here I am again. In the Midwestern haze of Memorial Day I stage my perennial battle against [...]

2019-04-01T12:04:25-04:00September 18, 2018|

The Carnival

Excerpted from Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology, coming in August from Belt Publishing. By Paul Dailing When I was a kid, [...]

2017-08-01T11:26:02-04:00August 1, 2017|

The Last, First Miami Speakers

The story of the Miami language over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is one of fracture and dissolution. In this it is not unique among Native languages—or cultures. In fact, it’s difficult to talk about one without the other.

2019-05-17T12:10:58-04:00July 14, 2017|

The Seeds of Rebirth

On a snowy, ten-degree day in January 2009, my girlfriend and I woke up and randomly found our way to Gary, Indiana. We had Broadway to ourselves. At that time, the former Sheraton Hotel (since demolished) loomed menacingly over downtown.

2017-07-18T14:43:01-04:00July 12, 2017|
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