Poetry

Gathering Driftwood

Elberta, Michigan We begin in the emerald dark forest. My grandmother’s cottage hidden, Baba Yaga cabin dwarfed by giant maples, ancient pines trembling aspen.  We…

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…

Nonfiction

My Father at the Shore of Lake Ontario

I grew up knowing Lake Ontario brings the abundance of lake-effect snow to my hometown outside of Syracuse. When I was running on my high…

Book Reviews / First Friday Series / Nonfiction

Ghosts on the Living Land

Passing Through a Prairie Country Dennis E. Staples Counterpoint Press One of the most persistent tropes in horror is that of the “Indian burial ground”…

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Narrative Map Project

Black Sands

Some people still call Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula “The Copper Country,” since it was home to over 150 copper mines and mills from the mid-1800s to…