New Galilee Eclipse
By Jennifer Niesslein The light is getting progressively stranger the closer we come to peak eclipse. It’s August, 2017, and [...]
Dad Rock: Tom Petty and the Music of My Father
By Erin Osmon When we buried my mother in a sylvan plot on the north side of Evansville, Indiana, she [...]
Too Fancy for Flint?
I live in Flint. I own a home in the city. However, I’m still often reluctant to call Flint my home. This isn’t because I’m not madly in love with this place, or incredibly proud to live in the city. It’s because of the way I talk. As soon as I open my mouth, most people realize I’m clearly not from here.
Main-Travelled Roads: Introduction
By Brianne Jaquette From Main-Travelled Roads, by Hamlin Garland, an inaugural title in Belt Publishing’s new Belt Revivals imprint, reprinting [...]
Looking For Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was a man of many talents, but interior design was not one of them. At his home in Springfield, Illinois, his bed is covered in a quilt with alternating red stripes and blue squares. The rug on the floor has stripes of red, green, and blue running in the opposite direction.
In observance of the first day of summer, an ode to my lawn mower
By Bert Stratton I didn’t used to like to cut my grass. I made my children do it, but then they [...]
This Is Why I’m Ready to Walk: Letter from a University of Michigan-Flint Lecturer
By Scott Atkinson Photograph by Erin Emory This is why I teach. I’m perhaps halfway through my digital stack of [...]
The mill might make steel, but the people don’t: The path from John Henry to Wilbur Ross
By Michael Broida The trade war has begun: China announced up to $50 billion of tariffs on U.S. products yesterday [...]
The Future of Appalachia Is Queer
by Elizabeth Catte Photography by Queer Appalachia Granny witch. Dirt femme. Two-spirit. Farm-Her. Affrilachian. Fag Hillbilly. The individuals in the [...]
28 minutes from Cleveland to Chicago? I’m on board with Hyperloop.
By Bert Stratton I’m on board. I’m good with the proposal from Hyperloop, a California company that announced on Monday [...]
Cleveland, Superior Ave. close to Public Square: Gateway to becoming American
By Lucy J. Cox I haven’t lived in Cleveland for decades, only going to visit, but spring training baseball always [...]
White Racist Aggression At The U. Michigan Game
While Hurricane Irma churned toward Key West after ravaging the Caribbean, more than 1,500 miles north in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the scene was picturesque and gorgeous.