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Cornerstone Press, 154 pages, $22.95

At one point in Dave Greschner’s 40-plus years as an outdoor writer and columnist, a critic complained that his columns were shifting from being “actively engaging” with nature to a more “observational and introspective tone.”

Cornerstone Press, 220 pages, $24.95

The characters in Christopher Chambers’ short story and flash fiction collection, Kind of Blue, wield hammers and crawl under cars, and at the end of a long shift they punch time clocks.

Split/Lip Press, 176 pages, $16

Through an intimate examination of his experience as an educator and as a student, Sean Enfield’s Holy American Burnout! is a collection of powerful essays...

The University of Arizona Press, 120 pages, $17.95

Kimberly Blaeser’s latest collection of poems, Ancient Light, is a gift to the world of poetry. These well-crafted poems leap off the page, nestle under our bones and sing to us.

Michigan State University Press, 341 pages, $39.95

The Great Lakes region, Canada included, supports 107 million people working 51 million jobs, and sustaining a gross domestic product of six trillion dollars.

Nikki Kallio book cover (cropped)

Finding the Bones, central Wisconsin author Nikki Kallio’s debut short story collection, opens with a geography lesson.

Dry Land by B. Pladek book cover

Regardless of subject matter, a novel is always about something else, and Dry Land by B. Pladek is no exception. The novel is billed as a book about a conservationist from Wisconsin with a remarkable—yes, magical—gift.

Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 48 pages, $14.95

Death’s Door, the dangerous strait linking Lake Michigan and Green Bay, is the protagonist and tells its story in first-person verse in this recent publication from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.

“The land set me dreaming, summoning memories of my other soulscapes and psychogeographies, layering them over one another in a palimpsest, many times and places present within me at once.” This line offers both description and explanation of Alis

Imagine living everyday of your childhood in a place where today’s Environmental Protection Agency would have declared the air quality “hazardous,” coding it in the dark red color of deoxygenated blood on its air pollution maps.

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