Contents
Foreword by Alison Swan
Introduction
Summer/Niibin
Bame-wa-wa-ge-zhik-aquay | [Here in my native inland sea]
Elinor Benedict | Announcement
Ellen Airgood | South of Superior excerpt
Fall/Automne
Elinor Benedict | For Those Who Dream of Cranes
Saara Myrene Raappana | All I know of white,
Catie Rosemurgy | Lake Superior Confesses to the Shore of Keweenaw Bay
Barbara Henning | Lopsided
Charmi Keranen | Seney
Lorine Niedecker | Lake Superior
Stellanova Osborn | Dusk
Elinor Benedict | Sudden Calm at Maywood Shores
Amy McInnis | The Next Thing that Begins
Gloria Whelan | Once on This Island excerpt
Mary Biddinger | My Upper Peninsula
Clara Corbett | Sweet Grass Spirit
Emily Van Kley | You Aren’t Sure & I May Not
Emily Van Kley | Vital Signs
Roxane Gay | North Country
Catie Rosemurgy | Love, with Trees and Lightning
Mary Biddinger | Copper Harbor
Sharon Dilworth | Mad Dog Queen
Lisa Fay Coutley | My Lake
Winter/Talvi
Sharon Dilworth | Winter Mines
Manda Frederick | Evacuations
Bonnie Jo Campbell | The Solutions to Brian’s Problem
Manda Frederick | Absent In Its Arrival
Ellen Airgood | Winter Wind
Bame-wa-wa-ge-zhik-aquay | Jane’s Christmas Gift 25 Dec 1841
Carroll Watson Rankin | Dandelion Cottage excerpt
Anne Ohman Youngs | How to Draw a Crow
Janeen Rastall | Imprinting
Anne Sexton | The Lost Lie
Anne Sexton | The Break Away
Anne Sexton | The Inventory of Goodbye
Jane Piirto | Eighteen Maple Trees
Roxane Gay | I Am a Knife
Sally Brunk | Skin on Skin
Janet Loxley Lewis | The Rocky Islands
Gloria Whelan | Incomer
Jane Piirto | Here
Sally Brunk | Authority Figure
Manda Frederick | Waiting on Bats at Dusk
Catie Rosemurgy | Winter in Gold River
Catie Rosemurgy | New Year’s Eve
Catie Rosemurgy | Billy Recalls It Differently
Andrea Scarpino | Persephone
Echoe Deibert | Bones: Okaniman
Lorine Niedecker | [What horror to awake at night]
Emily Walter | Paradoxical Undressing
Lisa Fay Coutley | Errata
Bame-wa-wa-ge-zhik-aquay | Mishosha, or the Magician of the Lakes
Spring/Primavera
Bame-wa-wa-ge-zhik-aquay | Lines Written Under Severe Pain and Sickness
Caitlin Horrocks | The Sleep
Stellanova Osborn | Censors
Beverly Matherne | Spring
Diane Sautter | Sleeping in Spirit’s Room
Janet Loxley Lewis | The Grandmother Remembers
Janet Loxley Lewis | The Village
Julie Brooks Barbour | The Baby Discovers
Beverly Matherne | The Poet’s Vision
Stellanova Osborn | Postscript
Elinor Benedict | For the Chinese People, Who See the Same Stars
Elinor Benedict | In a Far City
Sally Brunk | Lac Vieux Desert
Summer/Niibin
Amy McInnis | If One Stands Next to Lake Superior
Catie Rosemurgy | Summer in Gold River
Judith Minty | Ironing
April Lindala | For the Healing of All Women
Acknowledgments
Permissions
Contributors