Contents
Foreword by Thomas Lynch
1917–1957
Lew R. Sarett | “The Blue Duck: A Chippewa Medicine Dance” excerpt (1918)
William Jones | Now Great-Lynx (1919)
Lew R. Sarett/Lone Caribou | Beat Against Me No Longer (1919)
William Paris Potter | The Electric Giant (1920)
Lew R. Sarett/Lone Caribou | “The Box of God” excerpt (1921)
Ernest Hemingway | Up in Michigan (1921)
Janet Lewis | Anishinabeg in the Cranberry Swamp (1922)
Janet Lewis | The Wife of Manibozho Sings (1922)
Janet Lewis | The Indians in the Woods (1922)
Janet Lewis | The Old Woman Alone (1922)
Ernest Hemingway | Along with Youth (1923)
Ernest Hemingway | Chapter Heading (1923)
Mildred Walker | Fireweed excerpt (1934)
Iola Fuller | The Loon Feather excerpt (1940)
Lorine Niedecker | [Let’s play a game] (1950)
1957–2001
Robert Traver | Laughing Whitefish excerpt (1965)
Jim Harrison | Northern Michigan (1965)
Gordon Lightfoot | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (1976)
Judith Minty | “Yellow Dog Journal—Spring” excerpt (1979)
Judith Minty | “Yellow Dog Journal—Fall” excerpt (1979)
Jane Piirto | The Company (1980)
Jane Piirto | Pasty (1983)
Sue Harrison | Mother Earth Father Sky excerpt (1984)
John Woods | Under the Lidless Eye (1984)
Carol R. Hackenbruch | Lunar Eclipse (1988)
Phil Legler | Eggs (1988)
Stephen Tudor | De Tour Village (1988)
Jim Daniels | Soo Locks (1990)
Jim Northrup | “American Americans” excerpt (1991)
Jack Driscoll | The Wilderness State (1991)
Jonathan Johnson | Renewal (1994)
Phillip Sterling | North of Paradise (1995)
William Olsen | Paradise, Michigan (1996)
Elinor Benedict | A Daughter-in-Law Watches the Old Man Hesitate (1997)
Michael Delp | What My Father Told Me (1997)
Kenneth Pobo | Suspension Bridge (1997)
Steve Hamilton | A Cold Day in Paradise excerpt (1997)
Laura Kasischke | The World’s Largest Living Thing (1998)
Karl Iagnemma | On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction (2000)
M. L. Liebler | On the Scrap (2000)
2001–2017
Tom Bissell | Death Defier (2002)
Ander Monson | Vacationland (2003)
Austin Hummell | God’s Early Church (2004)
L. E. Kimball | Nothing He Can Put a Finger On (2004)
Cynie Cory | Iceberg (2004)
Cynie Cory | The Smell of Snow (2004)
Ingrid Hill | Ursula, Under excerpt (2004)
Jillena Rose | Water Mission (2006)
Keith Taylor | Upper Peninsula Fires (2007)
Gordon Henry | Jazz Tune for a Hiawatha Woman (2007)
Jeff Vande Zande | Disappearances (2007)
Russell Thorburn | Rent (2008)
Kathleen M. Heideman | Come Sunday, the dog of his thoughts will bury something unspeakable in your muddy garden (2008)
Eric Torgersen | I Will Die in Lake Superior (2009)
Julie Brooks Barbour | Watching (2010)
Cameron Witbeck | Cripple (2010)
April E. Lindala | To Dance Is to Pray (2011)
Russell Brakefield | Lake Surfing at Whitefish Point (2011)
Shirley Brozzo | Goin’ for Commods (2011)
Ron Riekki | Dominos (2011)
Eric Gadzinski | Waboos (2011)
M. Bartley Seigel | Beach Glass (2011)
Jennifer Yeatts | Self-Portrait as Blizzard (2012)
Corey Marks | And Winter (2012)
Hannah Baker-Siroty | Beekeeper outside Escanaba, Michigan (2012)
John Smolens | Possession(s) (2013)
Justin Machnik | Marquette (2013)
Lisa Fay Coutley | Researchers Find Mice Pass on Trauma to Subsequent Generations (2013)
Ron Riekki | Arm (2014)
Alex Vartan Gubbins | When the Lake Lost Its Sound (2014)
Ander Monson | Elf Incantation (2015)
Margaret Noodin | Miskwiyiwigiizhig Gichigamigong / Red Sky over Superior (2015)
Bonnie Jo Campbell | Down (2016)
Rosalie Sanara Petrouske | Before Leaving (2017)
Saara Myrene Raappana | Epithalamion, Anxiety Disorder (2017)
Timston Johnston | Natural Phenomena (2017)
Emily Van Kley | bitches (2017)
Margaret Noodin | Babejianjisemigad (2017)
Sally Brunk | “KBIC” excerpt (2017)
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