Where the trees burn gold in October and the lakes remember everything. Where winters are long and spring arrives slowly, as if testing the ground…
By the time the sap rose too early in the oaks and all the frogs in Tawas Bay began singing erratically, it was too late…
On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes (Michael Welch, editor) Belt Publishing, 2026 Ridge Avenue runs through Chicago and the suburb of Evanston, a…
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…