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Angelica
"My grandmother visits me from heaven/in the form of patient and complicated insects."
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The Damnation of Theron Ware: An Introduction
A fresh take on Harold Frederic's nineteenth-century novel.
Unfertile Ground
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Addressing Trauma at the Community Level in Chicago
The organizations changing the way we think about treatment.
Ida Tarbell and the Spirit of Reform
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The Day My Little Brother Gets Accepted Into Grad School,
my family: two fists/colliding. nothing strong enough to stop/my parents from raising a home in a city//being razed
How to Discuss Detroit’s Most Difficult Topic
By Aaron Foley Here in Detroit, we romanticize the immigrant-to-the-big-city story. We love our Ellis [...]
A Utopia at Niagara Falls
By Christian Ruhl In the late nineteenth century, a battle raged over the future of [...]
New Galilee Eclipse
By Jennifer Niesslein The light is getting progressively stranger the closer we come to peak [...]
Recovering the Indigenous Roots of Michigan’s Norton Mounds
By Marjorie Steele Two hundred years ago, when the spring floods would recede from the [...]
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