Volume IV, Issue 1

Fall 2017

This issue was the second to transition from our old site to this static platform. We hope you enjoy this past-issue in this new format.

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  • publisher's note
The Community in the Garden 

by Jon Andelson

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  • editor's note
Associate Editor’s Note 

by Emily Mamrak

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  • photo essay
Rock Creek Lake, Winter and Summer 

by Oliver Muñoz

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  • feature
  • multimedia
Birds of the Prairie 

by Ken Saunders

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  • essay
Growing A House in Fairfield 

by John Freeberg

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  • podcast
  • interview
Roots Talk! Episode 2 
A Podcast Interview with Cornelia Mutel

by Marie Kolaric, Sonia Chulaki, Noah Herbin, Cornelia Mutel

A Podcast Interview with Writer Cornelia Mutel
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  • poetry
Two Poems 

by Hannah Clark

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  • essay
Live Theatre and the Life of A Community 
Restoring Toledo, Iowa’s Wieting Theatre Opera House

by Abigail Evans

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  • interview
Animal, Vegetable, Human: Glyphosate’s Effects in Ag and Beyond 
An Interview with Art Dunham, DVM

by Arthur Grinnell Dunham, DVM

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  • poetry
Two Poems 

by Mike Lewis-Beck

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  • essay
Saving the Monarch Means Saving the Prairie — and Agriculture 

by Laura J. Jackson

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  • video
  • essay
The Moon Shines on the Prairie 

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  • short fiction
Selections from ‘A Midwestern Elegy’ 

by Molly Rideout

Short fiction by Molly Rideout
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  • poetry
Three Poems 

by Richard Luftig

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  • short fiction
The Next Time You Read Our Poem 
Short fiction by Quentin Chirdon

by Quentin Chirdon

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  • poetry
Prairie Burn 

by Sam Burt

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  • essay
A Farmer for Two Weeks 

by Mary Rose Bernal

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  • essay
Addiction 

by Sandy Moffett