Poetry

After the Storm

After the Storm Bemidji, Minn   Driving into the town, I went past hundreds of trees  bent or broken. The hurricane winds had taken down…

Fiction

Dislocation

Leo is a good player, skilled in translating raindrops that boil on the Detroit River while fishing into metaphors, a man who accepts his setbacks…

Book Reviews / First Friday Interviews

Redefining Lake Michigan: The Human Impact on The Great Lakes

Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan Theodore J. Karamanski University of Michigan Press   A boulder, a huge chunk of rock broken down…

First Friday Interviews / First Friday Series

The Men We Pretend To Be

Interview with Michael Gray about The Space Between Now and Then  Michael Gray appears on Zoom idly strumming a guitar, which he proceeds to hold…

Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Narrative Map Project: Canoe Trip in the Quetico

The following is a journal of observations and reflections from a canoe trip through the northern section of Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario. Together with…