Prairie gold: an anthology of the American heartland

Fiction. Introduction "Daydream" / Dean Bakopoulos --

The great river road / Molly Rideout --

Growing corn / Michelle Donahue --

Carlie's ride / Rachel Lopez --

The original redskin / Jason Lee Brown --

Tracks / Sheila Thorne --

Something other than garbage / Jim O'Loughlin --

Trapeze / Barbara Harroun --

Across Ohio / T.C. Jones --

In the Milo / Matthew Fogarty --

The weaving / Leni Yost --

Heartland / Stephanie A. Marcellus ; Nonfiction. Introduction "Not all there" / Debra Marquart --

Dakota good enough loving (and leaving) the sunflake state / Meghan Brown --

Cold feet / Sarah Elizabeth Turner --

Field stones / Zachary Hawkins --

Maintenance / Catherine Lanser --

Letters after Achilles / Stefanie Brook Trout --

Lucky / Paula Sergi --

Small town news / Paula Sergi --

Fuckaroo! / John Linstrom --

A need to know basis / D. Gilson --

Lost and found / Marc Nieson --

Mnisota / Benjamin Vogt --

Learning shift / Will Jennings --

Watching the sky / Andy Harper ; Poetry. Poetry introduction "My midwest, or whatever may fall ; From the sky / Mary Swander --

At Joe and Lonna's farm ; The center of the earth is a little off-kilter ; How to disappear in Michigan --

Huron / Lindsay Tigue --

Trillium ; Garage sale in Iowa / Melissa L. Sevigny --

Man kneeling at a rock / Sean Evans --

Nebraska biome ; Hoakie / Toni Easterson --

Hoarder / Heather D. Frankland --

FF>> / Russell Jaffe --

Rock Island / Ryan Collins --

Three pastorals ; Bucolic ; A sunset / Stephanie Schultz --

Eschelbach farm house / Issa M. Lewis --

Predicting weather / Carol V. Davis --

Like your parents / Jason Nicholas Vasser --

Swiming out of season (and, behold) ; November or even if you wear a watch ; Bumper crop ; Cave of light ; Echt / Susan Grimm --

Des Moines lobe (12,000) ya // A storm passes (in the long run) ; Adventitious roots ; I know where you are / Claire Krüsel --

Heirloom ; Ode to a walnut tree ; Heartland / Janice Rodgers Soule --

Midwestern monsoon / Tony Quick --

Boll weevil ; Collected genus species by George Washington Carver for Dr. Louis Pammel, Carver's mentor & professor ; !895 bomb yearbook ; Carver dreaming 1898 / Xavier Cavazos --

Ode to Farm & Fleet / Jennifer Fandel --

New Palestine, Indiana ; Effects ; March / Julia Anna Morrison --

Geography / Khadija Anderson --

Animals were looking at me / Jeff Tigchelaar --

Middle march ; Home sweet home ; Home Iowa / Su Hwang --

One kitchen one afternoon ; Whatchamacallit / Christopher Citro --

Translation / April J. Larson --

Cutbank ; Severe weather / Kristin Stoner --

Kwansaba for a deer that I helped my uncle butcher / Jeremiah Driver --

Pollen ; god-stem / Sandra Marchetti --

Messages ; Berry bender ; Real butter / Carly Sachs --

To the right you'll see ; A wood in Nebraska --

Missing, nearly / Trevor Ketner --

Bodies of water / Martin Ott --

Samantha's wedding: spring 2006 Winneconnie, Wisconsin / Katherine Ann Davis --

Orchard / Joe Betz --

Stuck in the middle west you ; Bildungsroman / Michelle Menting --

Villa Park, Illinois ; Blue glass and awnings / Kenneth Pobo --

Lightning bugs ; Toward winter / Elizabeth Schultz --

Home turf in the midwest ; The merge: Chicago near north side 1920s and 30s ; The height and fall of Little Sicily / Marici Salvatore --

That smallest of the Great Lakes / Morgan Harlow --

Michigan Pt. 1 ; Michigan pt. 2 / Esteban Colon --

A father's lament / Fred MaVaugh --

Norwest Minnesota in January / Nathaniel Lee Hansen --

Horoscopie / Laura Apol --

Reorienting / Nancy Cook --

Ox and lamb / Lou Amyx --

Love on the Plains ; More ; White / Dometa Brothers --

Layovers ; Preparations ; If the creek finally runs ; The unplanted field / Andrew Payton.