Volume III, Issue 1

Fall 2016

This issue was the transitioned from our old site to this static platform during the 2021-22 academic year. We hope you enjoy this past-issue in this new format.

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  • Publisher's Note
Publisher’s Note 

by Jonathan Andelson

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  • Essay
The Cost of Opportunity: Big Pork Comes to Mason City 

by John P. Lee

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  • Poetry
A Girl’s Song For Kate

by Michael Cavanagh

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  • Memoir
Cardinal 

by Chris Wiewora

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

by Amanda Gray

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

by Elizabeth J. Queathem

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  • Closeup
Closeup: Rachel Melis 

by Rootstalk

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  • Poetry
Fingerprints 

by Ethan Starr Evans

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  • Poetry
Sanctuary 

by Molly Griffin, illustrated by Claudia McGehee

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  • Essay
The Sound of Touch: ‘Branches’ Is A Prairie Collaboration 

by Abby Aresty and Eden Marek

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  • Photo Essay
Tilly Woodward Paintings 

by Tilly Woodward

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

by Lanny Haldy

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  • 2D Art
Shelby Prindaville Perfect Form Painting

by Shelby Prindaville

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  • Essay
Prairie Meanders An installation by Baz Kershaw, Susan Haedicke, and Lesley Delmenico

by Lesley Delmenico, Baz Kershaw, and Susan Haedicke

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  • Closeup
Closeup: Ken Saunders II 

by Ken Saunders