Poetry

Upriver

The top of the river is frozen. It doesn't look strong enough to stand on, barely enough to hold the wind. It's howling out, that…

Fiction

Lake Syntax

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…

Book Reviews / First Friday Interviews

Days by Moonlight, A Roadmap

It never fails to amaze me when I travel 30 minutes north to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)’s edges and experience the different universes of…

Book Reviews / First Friday Series / Nonfiction

Review of Voice/Poems by Susan Azar Porterfield

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…