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

Roadkill

I prowl the backroads in a dusty, battered old Ford truck that nobody would give a second look, especially folks of the law enforcement persuasion.…

Book Reviews / First Friday Interviews

Book Review: Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press

Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press Rebecca Kosick Wayne State University Press So often, when historians tell the story of the twentieth-century American avant-garde,…

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…