Preliminary Table of Contents:
Introduction, by Becky Bradway
Outskirts
Stuart Dybek. Midwest.
Mary Swander. That Glorious Time of Old.
James McManus. Your What Hurts?
Benjamin Alvey. Fag.
Jaimy Gordon. Little Man in the Woods.
Geography
Janet Wondra. Mid.
Scott Russell Sanders. Big Trees, Still Water, Tall Grass.
Becky Bradway. What It Is and Used to Be
Reginald Shepherd. A Walking Tour of the Chicago Lakefront, With Detours.
Sonia Gernes. Back Home in Indiana.
Sheryl St. Germain. What You Can See Mid-Winter in the Midwest; Walking the Prairie Rail Trail, Thinking About Loss
Transit
Bonnie Jo Campbell. A Train Runs Through It.
S.L. Wisenberg. Connections.
Rosanne Nordstrom. A Chicago Story.
Sharon Solwitz. Abra Cadabra.
California, Midwest
Maxine Chernoff. Michael Jordan's Lips.
Erin McGraw. Not From Here.
Cris Mazza. Displaced.
Robert Grindy. Desperately Seeking Blue Mound.
Workers
Anne Calcagno. Still on Cortland Street.
Jon Anderson. The Pluses and Minuses of Life in the Midwest.
Doug Hesse. My Father in White, Above the Royal Blue.
Richard Holinger. A Hard Saw.
Richard Newman. Boilermen.
Jenna M. Polk. Bits of Glass.
Artists
Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody. In Hyde Park: Momentary Stay Against Confusion.
Keith Ratzlaff. The Poet as John Nachtigal.
David Radavich. Midwestern Dramas.
Dan Guillory. Being Midwestern.
Robert Hellenga. Rural Writers.
Houses
Curtis White. excerpt from America's Magic Mountain
Martha Miller. No Queens on Pickett Street.
Mary Troy. How Does it Feel?
John McCluskey, Jr. J.W.
Philip Graham. The Baby Shower.
Rewind
Sharon Darrow. Remembering Canute.
Mary Helen Stefaniak. Positively 4th Street.
Paulette Roeske. The Basement.
Ricardo Cortez Cruz and Rodney B. Cruz. Welcome to the Land of Freedom.
Michael Martone. A Menagerie of Mascots.
Maura Stanton. The Basement
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