Poetry

Slap of Beauty

Maybe you’re numb or indifferent or just tired. Stiff little biscuit with upturned paws. Maybe you have that sick feeling—how you pay out pieces of…

Fiction

Queen of the Inland Seas

Standing on the dock at the end of Woodward, I watched the Georgian Bay Line's SS South American steam down the Detroit River. Her twin…

Book Reviews / First Friday Series / Nonfiction

Review of Voice/Poems by Susan Azar Porterfield

Susan Azar Porterfield grew up in Chicago and has spent her career teaching and writing in northern Illinois. Voice/Poems, published by Trio House Press in…

Book Reviews / First Friday Series / Nonfiction

Review of Voice/Poems by Susan Azar Porterfield

Susan Azar Porterfield grew up in Chicago and has spent her career teaching and writing in northern Illinois. Voice/Poems, published by Trio House Press in…

Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Perch Sandwiches, Baby Steps, and Other Memories of Growing Up on the Great Lakes

In western Lake Erie, on the south shore of Kelleys Island, a limestone rock covered with petroglyphs holds a few clues as to the first…