Volume V, Issue 2

Spring 2019

This issue transitioned to our static platform in the Summer of 2022. Note that its content is also available for download as a single .pdf using the link provided above.

publisher's note
appreciation

Publisher’s Note: What Makes A Hero? Remembering Bill Stowe (1959-2019)

by Jon Andelson

editor's note

Associate Editors

by Rootstalk

interview

Sacrifice State

An Interview with Bill Stowe

by Bill Stowe

essay

Why Drive to Central Nebraska During A Winter Weather Warning?

by Sandy Moffett

memoir

Violence Against the Earth Is Violence Against Women

by Kandi White, Sebastian Braun

infographic

The Tools of Prairie Reconstruction

by Rachel Snodgrass

photo essay

The Greater Prairie Chicken: Photos by Bruce Leventhal

by Ilana Cohen, Bruce Leventhal

essay

Establishing Native Prairie Plantings Without Using Herbicides

by Harriet Behar

memoir

Finding the Midwest: A Journey in Six Parts

by Greg Brew

poetry

Two Poems

by Niki Neems

interview

Literature and Opportunity in the Midwest

by Deborah Brandt, Daisy Morales

interview

‘Sunflower, Sunflower’—A Neurodiverse Landscape

An Interview with Bryan Boyce and the Writers of Cow Tipping Press

by Bryan Boyce, Sang Yoon Byun

2d art

Prairie Wildflowers: Two Artists, Two Mediums, One Beauty

by Andy Hayes, Dan Kaiser

memoir

Ode to Liberty #6

by Mary Richardson McBee

poetry

Two Poems

by Mike Lewis-Beck

interview
review

Seth Hanson’s “Not Too Deep”—Seeking the Sound of Rural Iowa

Interview by Ethan Evans

by Ethan Evans, Seth Hanson

podcast
interview

Roots Talk! Episode #6

A Podcast Interview with Heather Swan

by Heather Swan

essay

Thoreau’s Home on the Prairie

by Paul Goodnature

poetry

Prayerful Prairies

by Gerard Sarnat

interview

Tortilla Pooris* (and Other Kitchen Experiments)

by Anjali B. Jain

memoir

My Integrated Life, Part II

by Dartanyan Brown