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…
Book Reviews / First Friday Interviews
The Price of Progress: Unintended Consequences in Northwest Ohio
The Great Black Swamp: Toxic Algae, Toxic Relationships, and the Most Interesting Place In America That Nobody’s Ever Heard Of (Belt Publishing, 2025) Deep…
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…