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HISTORY
Cleveland After Serial
The podcast highlighted issues in the city's criminal justice system. Where do residents go from here?
Cleveland After Serial
The podcast highlighted issues in the city's criminal justice system. Where do residents go from here?
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ARTS & CULTURE
Paper House
"I never would have called it homelessness, if you’d asked."
POETRY
Power and Peril at the Great Lakes
Lessons from one 1971 near-disaster for the future of nuclear power in the region.
POLICE VIOLENCE
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When the World is Remade, Make It Like Appalachia
But this time, let’s also invest in critical infrastructure—including healthcare.
After the Flood
How Chicago is coping with the effects of climate change.
Stella of Tremont
By the time she was four, my grandmother had survived her first global pandemic. A lifetime later, she is weathering another.
Democracy by Mail
Coronavirus has threatened the viability of in-person voting. With major elections just a few months away, states and organizers are looking to expand alternative options.
How Appalachians are Managing Recovery During Coronavirus
With higher risks of relapse during COVID-19, communities are finding new ways to support each other.
An Elegy for John Prine
"If you listen long enough, you’ll find your own Prine line, the one that makes you feel real lonesome and want to laugh, all at once."
Fragmentos de Niña Codiciosa
"Does land have a memory?"
In Jails, “A Catastrophe Waiting to Happen”
Facilities across the region have begun releasing incarcerated people due to dangerous conditions. It's not the first time.
“No Ordinary Time”
A coronavirus sketchbook, March 2020.
No Room for the Elbow Room
"Okay, radical honesty:/The Elbow Room probably wasn’t the greatest bar in the history of bars"
Mutual Aid in the Rust Belt
A developing list of coronavirus-related efforts in the region.
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From the Archives
Rightsizing Thanksgiving in the Rust Belt
As the jobs have vanished, as education and employment have lured our young people out-of-state and overseas, our holidays have been transformed as well.
Belt Magazine News
Call for Submissions: Indianapolis Anthology
Announcing an anthology of stories from Indianapolis, Indiana, to be published by Belt Publishing.
Call for Submissions: Dayton Anthology
Announcing an anthology of stories from Dayton, Ohio, to be published by Belt Publishing.
Call for Submissions: INseparable
In search of features, essays, and poems that engage with the relationships between rural, urban, and suburban places in Indiana.
