Poetry

Poetry by Mark Kessinger

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…

Fiction

Trinity Park

Seven Bells  They are studying homelessness at the high school, that’s what the kid said, as if it’s a thing  on a petri dish, a…

Nonfiction

The Dimensions of Erie

It was years before my quiet Cleveland suburb really felt like home, like I wasn’t just hovering over a map of the place, my feet…

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…