Putting Down Roots
A poem by Elaine Elizabeth Belz.
I Need to Find My Folks in Mapleton
A poem by Gary Moore.
Pandemic Diaries, Year Three
Dispatch from Flint, Michigan: when COVID-19 hits home.
My Garden Folly
Backyard gardens are for you. Front yard gardens are for others.
The Girl in the Mall
Growing up in my rural Ohio town, the mall was our refuge. It could also be dangerous.
“A City Upon a Hill”
In 1993, the Mississippi River destroyed the town of Valmeyer, Illinois. So residents moved it a mile uphill.
Lancaster is Burning
"The landscape of Fairfield County, Ohio sprouted the seeds of my imagination, helped them take root." [Excerpt]
From Croatia to Cleveland to Columbus
On generational migration and identity in the Midwest.
My Life in Oil
Detroit, the tar sands, and burying my father in toxic ground.
Madison, Indiana Wants to Be the Next ‘Music City’
The small river town might have the best per capita music scene in the country.
Between Old House and New
Coming to terms with a complicated family legacy on an Illinois farm.
About Leaving (Milwaukee)
An original poem from "The Milwaukee Anthology."