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.

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

by Jon Andelson

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  • Editor's Page
Associate Editors 

by Rootstalk

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  • Interview
Sacrifice State An Interview with Bill Stowe

by Bill Stowe

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  • Essay
Why Drive to Central Nebraska During A Winter Weather Warning? 

by Sandy Moffett

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  • Memoir
Violence Against the Earth Is Violence Against Women 

by Kandi White, Sebastian Braun

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  • Infographic
The Tools of Prairie Reconstruction 

by Rachel Snodgrass

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  • Photo Essay
The Greater Prairie Chicken: Photos by Bruce Leventhal 

by Ilana Cohen, Bruce Leventhal

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  • Essay
Establishing Native Prairie Plantings Without Using Herbicides 

by Harriet Behar

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  • Memoir
Finding the Midwest: A Journey in Six Parts 

by Greg Brew

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  • Poetry
Two Poems 

by Niki Neems

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  • Interview
Literature and Opportunity in the Midwest 

by Deborah Brandt, Daisy Morales

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  • Interview
‘Sunflower, Sunflower’—A Neurodiverse Landscape An Interview with Bryan Boyce and the Writers of Cow Tipping Press

by Bryan Boyce, Sang Yoon Byun

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  • 2D Art
Prairie Wildflowers: Two Artists, Two Mediums, One Beauty 

by Andy Hayes, Dan Kaiser

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  • Memoir
Ode to Liberty #6 

by Mary Richardson McBee

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  • Poetry
Two Poems 

by Mike Lewis-Beck

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  • Interview
  • Review
Seth Hanson’s “Not Too Deep”—Seeking the Sound of Rural Iowa Interview by Ethan Evans

by Ethan Evans, Seth Hanson

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  • Podcast
  • Interview
Roots Talk! Episode #6 A Podcast Interview with Heather Swan

by Heather Swan

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  • Essay
Thoreau’s Home on the Prairie 

by Paul Goodnature

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  • Poetry
Prayerful Prairies 

by Gerard Sarnat

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  • Interview
Tortilla Pooris* (and Other Kitchen Experiments) 

by Anjali B. Jain

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  • Memoir
My Integrated Life, Part II 

by Dartanyan Brown