hooper branch: a story about a fire
Hooper Branch is a restored prairie and black oak savanna on the southern edge of the Kankakee River country, about 80 miles due south of Chicago. Though located over an hour’s drive from Lake Michigan, in the heart of downstate Illinois’ corn country, the landscape of Hooper Branch is made up mostly of sand dunes […]
apophasis | prairie specimens
In The Nature of Home: A Lexicon & Essays (2002), Nebraska writer Lisa Knopp writes of the homesickness that she suffered in her mid-thirties, when she left the Great Plains for an academic job in the Southeast, underwent a divorce, and was separated from her two children and her parents. Far from home, landscape traces […]
