Tag: essay

Publisher's Note

Publisher’s Note: The Pandemic on the Prairie

by Jon Andelson

publisher's note

Publisher’s Note

by Jon Andelson

publisher's note

The Community in the Garden

by Jon Andelson

Farewell, Richard

Jon Andelson

editors' note

Editors’ Notes

by Emma Thomasch and Madeline Warnick

The Cost of Opportunity: Big Pork Comes to Mason City

by John P. Lee

Short Story

Dead Gun

by Sandy Moffett

Essay

Peaches, Meet Corn

by Mariah Manoylov

In this essay, a Georgia-based writer shares her introduction to the prairie’s wild beauty. Read more →

My Prairie

by Betty Moffett

Essay

Growing A House in Fairfield

by John Freeberg

Memoir

My Integrated Life, Part III

by Dartanyan Brown

Why Drive to Central Nebraska During A Winter Weather Warning?

by Sandy Moffett

Drawings

by Tara Shukla

Cardinal

by Chris Wiewora

essay

The Garwin Bowery

by Frank Heath

Tortoise Philosophy

by John C. Whittaker

The Tools of Prairie Reconstruction

by Rachel Snodgrass

Essay

Live Theatre and the Life of A Community

by Abigail Evans

Essay

“One Clover, and A Bee”: Improving Biodiversity through Community Engagement

by Amanda Gray

essay

My Growth at Mustard Seed Community Farm

by Tristan Aschittino

The Stories We Live By: Writing Climate Change*

by Cornelia F. Mutel

Essay

On the Changing Nature of the Obituary

by Mary Kay Shanley

Want to know how prairie culture has changed? Consult the obituaries in your local paper. Read more →

Establishing Native Prairie Plantings Without Using Herbicides

by Harriet Behar

A Shared Heritage: Preserving Genetic Diversity and Cultural Traditions through Seed Saving

by Toby Cain

Confronting Climate Change with Love: A Review of Cornelia Mutel’s (A Sugar Creek Chronicle)

by Elizabeth J. Queathem

Finding the Midwest: A Journey in Six Parts

by Greg Brew

Essay

Worthless Rocks

by John C. Whittaker

On any given outing on the prairie, you might just turn over an artifact from the country’s indigenous past. Or maybe not… Read more →

Literature and Opportunity in the Midwest

by Deborah Brandt, Daisy Morales

Puppy Mills in Iowa

by Mary LaHay

Obedience and Resistance

by John Lawrence Hanson

Interview

‘Sunflower, Sunflower’—A Neurodiverse Landscape

by Bryan Boyce, Sang Yoon Byun

Essay/Closeup

Water Management on the Missouri River

by Nina Kouchi

From Soil to Sustainability

by Frederick L. Kirschenmann

Nostalgia, the Nineteenth Century, and the House Next Door

by Will Fellows

Essay

Saving the Monarch Means Saving the Prairie — and Agriculture

by Laura J. Jackson

essay

Long Play: 33 1/3 Years in a Local History Museum

by Lanny Haldy

Chore Boots, Checkbooks and Chalkboards

by Sophie Neems

Such A Clean, Tidy Man

by J. Harley McIlrath

Essay

My Integrated Life

by Dartanyan Brown

Musician, journalist, educator with a 40-year career in the arts–our contributor has folded together multiple extraordinary lives. Read more →

Essay

Murder at A Midwest School

by Jason Ross

Ode to Liberty #6

by Mary Richardson McBee

Closeup: Ken Saunders II

by Ken Saunders

The Pines in Concert

by Kelly Hansen Maher

Personal Essay

A Farmer for Two Weeks

by Mary Rose Bernal

The Making of the Midwestern Prairie

by Thomas Rosburg

Thoreau’s Home on the Prairie

by Paul Goodnature

Essay

Addiction

by Sandy Moffett

My Integrated Life, Part II

by Dartanyan Brown

Essay

Havensville

by Kay Henry

Essay

Extraction, Roots, Energy, and The Plains

by Sebastian Braun

This scholar of Native American culture meditates on the meaning of roots, and the challenge to them represented by energy extraction. Read more →