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Rust Belt Tales: Growth, Death, Rebirth?

Volume I, Issue II –

Editor: Michael McDermott

Art: Diego Rivera – The Detroit Industry Murals Courtesy of The Detroit Institute of Art

Site Design: Barbara Flaherty

Publisher: Black Earth Institute, Black Earth, Wisconsin. 2012

Michael McDermott
- Editor’s Note

The Detroit Industry Murals by Diego Rivera

Section I: Growth and some death

Patricia Monaghan
- Confiteor: A Country Song

Karla Linn Merrifield
- Third Coast Scherzi Suite, West to East

John Aylesworth
- Stories and Songs as Old as The Hills
- Locavores in Priuses at the Farmer’s Market in Athens, Ohio

Robin Chapman
- Trail Work in Sylvania Wilderness
- Country Neighbors

Beatrice M. Hogg
- The Old Country

Diane Kendig
- Reedurban, Ohio

Meri Culp
- Factory Dreams: Princess Peggy, 1924
- Spilled: Tomato Talk
- Terre Haute Summer

Sandra Giedeman
- I Come from Granite City

Tom Montgomery Fate
- A Torn Map

Patrick Cook
- Cottage Country, Michigan

Flavian Mark Lupinetti
- Smoke and Steel

Section II: Death takes evermore life from growth

Liz N. Clift
- Reasons I Shouldn’t Write About the Rust Belt
- Remember, You Will Die
- Steamed Milk

Ray McNiece
- Leaving Cleveland
- The Bridge, Cleveland

Margot Adler Welch
- Flooded

Donna D. Vitucci
- Hex, October 1956

Amanda Lewan
- My Grandmother’s Garden
- Rhythm
- From Detroit To Afghanistan

Jeff Fearnside
- Aceldama (An Allegory)

Judith Arcana
- Darkening Sky Above Garages
- Vivaldi In Chicago

KP Giordano
- A Postindustrial Reconciliation

Marc Sheehan
- Self Storage
- Sunday Morning

Richey Piiparinen
- Hunting for Growth in a Shrinking City

Susanna Lang
- Baggage Claim at Union Station, Palm Sunday
- Linden

T. Walter Pallante
- The Shape of Things

Quraysh Ali Lansana
- Impermanence
- Misplaced

Judith Roche
- Train from Detroit
- Hoffa

Krystal Sierra
- A Cleveland Abstraction: Childhood Melody

Krystal Sierra
- What I Have Come to Learn About Endurance
- A Break of Silence

Kathy Schrenk
- Graham

Jnana Hodson
- Flatbed Ohio
- Crankshafts
- Main to Center

Allison Cummings
- Milwaukee, Gary, Flint
- Want Ads

Marie Pavlicek-Wehrli
- In the Valley of Fire, My Parents Are Sleeping
- When All You Own Is Anger

William Doreski
- Toledo To Cleveland

Ben Shannon
- Ghost Town
- Without A Lie

Section III: Rebirth in the place and space of death

Julie Ezelle Patton
- The Building by the Side of the Road: Cleveland’s Native/Green Rights Movement

Ann Filemyr
- Detroit and the History of Green

Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige
- Detroit, Place and Space To Begin Anew

Jay Walljasper
- Rise of Commons Transforms a Rust Belt City

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