Poetry

The Buckeye Burr, for James Wright

The very name diminishes upon the page, like the hardscrabble heights of Appalachia ramshackling into the glacier-scraped basin of Lake Erie, a cracked shadow of…

Fiction

Brains in Love

Five days before the end of America's third impeachment trial, Richard Schiffman got into a heated argument over the first. Richard, who works in television,…

First Friday Series

Hiromi Ito and Jeffrey Angles: When a Great Writer Meets a Great Translator

When you read the final page of Hiromi Ito’s The Thorn Puller and put the book down, you walk away in a daze at what…

Photography

Eerie

As I was driving to New York City in late October, 2021, I took an exit for Lake Erie outside Erie, Pennsylvania. I drove along…

First Friday Series

Hiromi Ito and Jeffrey Angles: When a Great Writer Meets a Great Translator

When you read the final page of Hiromi Ito’s The Thorn Puller and put the book down, you walk away in a daze at what…

Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Going to the Lake

I’ve learned that Shetek means pelican in Ojibwe, just as I’ve learned that “going to the lake” for many Minnesotans involves a drive north, a…