the tipping frontier today's push back against chaos was walking two shoes back to their closet upon waking, with them, waking them, waking into the…
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…
Lake Superior has become my therapist this summer. While my calls sit unanswered and United Healthcare’s Medicaid program doesn’t cover me, she is always available…
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…