Writing and photography from the Great Lakes region
Unstoppable “Life is its own mirage of change.” T’ao Ch’ien Nearby the North-Flowing River roils, the color of coffee-with-milk, high in the late-winter thaw. The warm south wind ruffles the waves, urging them onward toward the Great fatigued Lake. River-rocks …
BY JENNIFER HUTCHISON This nonfiction poem is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. Note from the author: I based this poem on a storm I experienced in Southampton, Ontario, in 2013. Lake Huron is the second largest of …
An excerpt from Fall 2013 by Birgit Elston He wove through the high blue October and the softening dark of November that sheltered unruly hopes of the season to come. And now, the brink of the Christmas freeze he’s still …
