Poetry

Gathering Driftwood

Elberta, Michigan We begin in the emerald dark forest. My grandmother’s cottage hidden, Baba Yaga cabin dwarfed by giant maples, ancient pines trembling aspen.  We…

Fiction

As The Crows Here Fly

I feel it in my stomach, not butterflies, but a bird whose wings are my ribcage; it stands firmly at the pit of my stomach,…

Book Reviews / Nonfiction

Book Review of A Domestic Cook Book by Malinda Russell

A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen by Malinda Russell is the oldest known cookbook published by a…

Photography

Saginaw Bay

  These photographs were taken in the summer of 2013 on a camping trip in Bay County, Michigan. The shoreside wildlife was abundant, from the…

Book Reviews / First Friday Series / Nonfiction

Ghosts on the Living Land

Passing Through a Prairie Country Dennis E. Staples Counterpoint Press One of the most persistent tropes in horror is that of the “Indian burial ground”…

Narrative Map Project

Erie, Pennsylvania: Waldameer Amusement Park

While growing up I was mildly obsessed with Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, particularly his depiction of the traveling carnival that disrupts the…