Poetry

Granite and Crimson

for Gary Beaumier Today, as you stomp snow-boots  beside the carp and wheel of seagulls  then mince your steps precise and cautious so as not…

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

Shaped by the Water: Stories of the Great Lakes

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…

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…