Poetry

Last Night on the Island

This time I wake alone on that darkened shore The fire caved in on itself. I can still hear the ashes gurgling.  Earlier, the heat…

Fiction

Swim in the Lake

If somebody was outside now and looking up at the second floor of the house, he’d see me staring out from behind the thick lattice…

Book Reviews / First Friday Interviews / Nonfiction

Book Review: The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart

One text that has become almost ingrained in my literary consciousness of the connection between fiction and the Great Lakes region, from a Canadian perspective,…

Photography

Saginaw Bay

  These photographs were taken in the summer of 2013 on a camping trip in Bay County, Michigan. The shoreside wildlife was abundant, from the…

Book Reviews / First Friday Interviews / First Friday Series

Slashes and Other Signs of Discordance: Review of Nora Gold’s In Sickness and In Health and Yom Kippur in a Gym

In 2024, Guernica Editions published two novellas by Nora Gold in one volume. Rather ingeniously, the novellas, In Sickness and In Health and Yom Kippur…

Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

The Niagara River Gorge: A Church Full of Joy

In many ways, the section of the Niagara River that races, swirls, and squeezes through the deep Niagara Gorge beyond the Falls behaves like a…