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The Detroit Lions’ Last Hurrah
It isn’t the last time Bill Ford will celebrate a little too much after a Detroit Lions’ game. But it is the last time in his long life he will celebrate them winning a championship.
City of Champions
A poem by Cal Freeman.
Baseball Obituary Ending with a Car Trip to Lakeland
A poem by Kevin T. Cantwell.
Two Poems by Avery Gregurich
Two poems by Avery Gregurich.
Hands that Carry Their Own Maps of the World
On this day in end-times 1999, Jimmy Carter, the former president of the United States, that sweetheart, was on a flight I was working. It was a shuttle flight, D.C. to New York, maybe. No First Class, no fuss.
Reefing Syndrome
A poem by Autumn Thomas.
Talking to Novelist Sharon Dilworth
An interview with novelist Sharon Dilworth about her new campus novel of Upper Peninsula intrigue, To Be Marquette.
Eucharist
A poem by Michael Harper.
Swing Set: The Giant’s Footsteps
The concept and meaning of risk changed as we aged. As kids, the risk of our fathers losing their factory jobs never occurred to us. The notion that anything as large and permanent as the factories would disappear seemed ludicrous.
Two Poems by BEE LB
Two poems by BEE LB.
Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin
“What sets Wisconsin’s Frank Lloyd Wright Trail apart is the comprehensive examples that you’ll see of Wright’s architecture, including a church, affordable housing, a warehouse, a civic building and his own 800-acre estate."
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