Waves roll and splatter onto the boulders at the lake’s edge. Roars boom from the deep underbelly of the sludge-coloured water. The lone swan is…
Seven Bells They are studying homelessness at the high school, that’s what the kid said, as if it’s a thing on a petri dish, a…
Book Reviews / First Friday Interviews
Such Madness. Such Damage. A Review of Sarah Freligh’s Other Emergencies
This collection follows the hardscrabble lives of the working class and working poor as they lumber through the bleak, unending grit and wet gray ash…
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…