My nine-paned window was fogged and then it cleared It was like waking up …
Standing on the dock at the end of Woodward, I watched the Georgian Bay Line's SS South American steam down the Detroit River. Her twin…
Essays / Nonfiction
Flagging The Midwest’s Political Privileges: A plea from an Ohioan in California
Relocating from the Midwest to California in 2023, I found Californians not qualitatively different from Midwesterners. Yet the 2024 election cycle has focused intensely on…
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…