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Travel Essay: Detroit River & Western Lake Erie
The Stacks
“This essay is set Downriver, an industrial set of suburbs just south of Detroit; it engages with questions of ecology of the Detroit River’s Trenton Channel, some industrial and ecological history of western Lake Erie, and it also highlights the work of Trenton, MI writer and poet Peter Markus”
- Cal Freeman
Gray Heron
My wife would see the bird by itself, that bird always by itself. And she’d say, “Look, a gray heron.” I’d see the bird she was talking about. Maybe we’d be driving down the long driveway that leads to my parents’ house, which sits on a lake, and the bird would be standing watch on the point, looking out at the flatness of the water, keeping a vigil unto itself.
by John Randall
divagations: literary journal vol. 1 is FINALLY HERE
spring 2024: poetry + prose issue
“Joe Henry is Madonna’s brother-in-law, but he isn’t what you’d call famous. Although he was raised in Michigan, Joe Henry is not a Michigan songwriter in any quintessential sense.”
by Cal Freeman
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Photo Gallery: Birds Around the World
“Crows are NOT bad birds! They are actually quite nice. Magpies are the nasty ones who bully all the migratory birds!"
— Quote from a taxi driver (translated from Korean)
by Emily Choi
My wife would see the bird by itself, that bird always by itself. And she’d say, “Look, a gray heron.” I’d see the bird she was talking about. Maybe we’d be driving down the long driveway that leads to my parents’ house, which sits on a lake, and the bird would be standing watch on the point, looking out at the flatness of the water, keeping a vigil unto itself….