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Interviews / Nonfiction

Meet the Editors: Jacob Wood, Photography

August 22, 2020August 22, 2020

Jacob Wood became the Great Lakes Review photography editor in February 2020. He’s an immigrant from the United Kingdom and has lived in the United States for two years. A resident of Pennsylvania, Jacob’s specialty is landscape photography. Jacob chatted …

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Meet the Editors: Kate Watt, Poetry

May 26, 2020May 29, 2020

Kate Watt joined the Great Lakes Review team as a poetry editor in February 2020. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she’s an assistant teaching professor. You’ll find her work in a variety …

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Meet The Editors: Jimmy Hollenbeck, Fiction

April 2, 2020April 14, 2020

Jimmy Hollenbeck joined the Great Lakes Review team as a fiction editor in February 2020. A Michigan native, Jimmy holds a Master’s degree in English language and literature from Central Michigan University and studied film and creative writing there as …

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Meet The Editors: Dom Fonce, Poetry

March 25, 2020April 1, 2020

Dom Fonce joined the Great Lakes Review team as a poetry editor in February 2020. He also serves as a co-editor-in-chief of Volney Road Review, founded in 2018, and you can find his work in numerous literary magazines, journals, and …

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Life is Unbearably Vivid: An Essay on Sundog by Jim Harrison and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Essays / Nonfiction

Life is Unbearably Vivid: An Essay on Sundog by Jim Harrison and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

November 7, 2017September 23, 2020

In a 2016 New York Times Book Review interview Jim Harrison responded to a question about his favorite fictional heroes and villains with, “My original favorite fictional hero was Heathcliff in Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights.’”[1] In Heathcliff Bronte creates one of …

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Ashtabula, Ohio: The Biker
Narrative Map Project / Poetry

Ashtabula, Ohio: The Biker

October 21, 2017February 18, 2020

This poem is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. The bike wobbles as he turns his head to say hello to the girl and her dog and the handlebars swerve the way they do the first time the …

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Marquette, Michigan: Pristine Inland Sea
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Marquette, Michigan: Pristine Inland Sea

October 18, 2017February 18, 2020

This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project.  As a lifelong resident of Marquette, Michigan, located on the south shore of Lake Superior, I consider myself fortunate. Wherever I have lived in the city, I have been …

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Squelch
Essays / Nonfiction

Squelch

September 26, 2017September 23, 2020

Last night, I remembered playing pitch dark hide and seek in a muddy field, a ruined pair of Air Max 95s, and the joy of black college freshmen running fearless through the night. I am certain I will never again …

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Windsor, Ontario: Mount Francis
Narrative Map Project / Poetry

Windsor, Ontario: Mount Francis

August 15, 2017February 18, 2020

This poem is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. For fourteen weeks the grasses grew so high they turned to accidental prairies. The union tossed bottles and wire hangers into the parks to stop residents from mowing down …

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