Poetry

THE LAND OF NOD

Our rocking chair squeaks. It didn’t used to but this is the third kid whose bedtime routine has centered around the chair and somewhere inside…

Fiction

Lavender

The cabin’s not in great shape—windows jammed, ceiling cracked, wood floor a patchwork of scars—but it’s clean enough and secluded, tucked deep in the woods.…

Book Reviews / First Friday Interviews / First Friday Series

Slashes and Other Signs of Discordance: Review of Nora Gold’s In Sickness and In Health and Yom Kippur in a Gym

In 2024, Guernica Editions published two novellas by Nora Gold in one volume. Rather ingeniously, the novellas, In Sickness and In Health and Yom Kippur…

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 Interviews / First Friday Series

Slashes and Other Signs of Discordance: Review of Nora Gold’s In Sickness and In Health and Yom Kippur in a Gym

In 2024, Guernica Editions published two novellas by Nora Gold in one volume. Rather ingeniously, the novellas, In Sickness and In Health and Yom Kippur…

Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Going to the Lake

I’ve learned that Shetek means pelican in Ojibwe, just as I’ve learned that “going to the lake” for many Minnesotans involves a drive north, a…