Poetry

What You Haven’t Seen- A Prose Poem

There are people who haven't seen a Great Lakes lake freighter. Those who have no idea the pyramids of coal and iron ore it can…

Fiction

Dislocation

Leo is a good player, skilled in translating raindrops that boil on the Detroit River while fishing into metaphors, a man who accepts his setbacks…

Nonfiction

The Country Across the Water

I grew up in Courtright, Ontario, where the United States is not south. It is across. St. Clair, Michigan, sits on the other bank of…

Book Reviews / First Friday Series / Nonfiction

Futures, In the Past

The Pit: A Story of Chicago Frank Norris Belt Publishing (Belt Revivals Series) Many of the great Chicago books revolve around people on the bottom…

Narrative Map Project

Narrative Map Project: Mishigami

The great lake sits there alone, just before dark, calm yet forbidding while the fat old sun behind me with its rubescent glow of dying…