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Bucolia by Danielle Barr

“Bucolia” was shortlisted for the 2024 Best in Rural Writing Contest by judge Dr. Chea Parton. Learn more about the contest here. * Tucked away in the center of a...

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Rural Lit Book Club: The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

The Rural Literature Book Club is meeting online for the sixth...

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Watching the Combines and Other Poems by Daril Bentley

Darkroom The past would seem to exist beneath a red...

D Bedell Sometimes Being Sold Out is Worth the Price

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Sometimes Being Sold Out Is Worth the Price by D Bedell

One Joe Dell, sitting on a basswood stump, looked at...

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I Confess and Other Poems by Kari Gunter-Seymour

I Confess I’ve resorted to murder, here in my kitchen...

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Landscapes of the imagination

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Bucolia by Danielle Barr

“Bucolia” was shortlisted for the 2024 Best in Rural Writing Contest by judge Dr. Chea Parton. Learn more...

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Sometimes Being Sold Out Is Worth the Price by D Bedell

One Joe Dell, sitting on a basswood stump, looked at the dirty handkerchief, now bloody, that he had...

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Walking Beans by Diane DeBok

It was the second day that Kate and her father walked beans. They had been out since seven...

Nonfiction

Exploring self, exploring context

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A Way of Saving by Bradley David

My favorite inheritance is the green toy metal shovel. Also, the elfin-like ski-toed leather booties. Also, the pair...

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67 Years Later, How a Farm Accident Changed our Lives by Carol Fellin

Even after so many years, tears still fill my eyes when I think of my brother’s farm accident....

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The Honor Gardens by Linda K. Allison

From the car’s passenger seat, I watch grain fields pass like a movie reel. I’m fascinated by the...

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The music of verse

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Watching the Combines and Other Poems by Daril Bentley

Darkroom The past would seem to exist beneath a red light behind a door seldom opened save to...

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I Confess and Other Poems by Kari Gunter-Seymour

I Confess I’ve resorted to murder, here in my kitchen filled with basil, bee balm and thronging castes...

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My Mother Considers Her Callows Farm by Patrick Deeley

My Mother Considers Her Callows Farm From a parlour window I see sunlight creeping across the fields, and...

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