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                the museum of americana invites you to connect with our editors at AWP this year! They're not as scary as this bear. I promise. You can catch up with us: Wednesday, March 27th, 5:00–7:00 PM Sustainable Print: A Celebration of Independent Lit Featuring poetry and prose from Tahoma … Continue reading Connect with the museum of americana at AWP

As soon as I started Grant Clauser’s latest collection of poems, Reckless Constellations, I thought to myself, Wow, I know this place. This place is a landscape filled with beer-can littered woods, second-hand stores, and haunted back roads. But it’s also a place populated by snipe hunters, little boys who find themselves in engaging in … Continue reading Grant Clauser’s Reckless Constellations — Review and Interview by Contributor Karen Weyant

Join members of the museum of americana’s editorial staff, along with contributors, and friends old and new, for a midday meetup at AWP18 in Tampa! Have a beer, share news, learn about the review, or just stop by and say hey. We’d love to see you!   Day: Friday, March 9 Time: 12:00 pm - … Continue reading AWP18 Museum Meetup

Viriditas, the debut solo album from NYC-based composer Charlie Rauh, is a series of short guitar pieces exploring the modalities of simple melodic phrases.  Contributor Cal Freeman takes the opportunity to interview him about the release and ask some questions about his musical influences and his multi-faceted musical life.   Tell us a bit about the unique … Continue reading Contributor Cal Freeman Interviews Charlie Rauh

          Congratulations to the following contributors for their excellent contributions this year. We believe in your work deeply, and we wish you luck in the judging process. Prose An American Shopping Cart — Nonfiction by Jennifer Fliss Two Flash Fictions by Christopher Merkner  Poetry I’ve never been good at directions or … Continue reading Announcing our Pushcart Nominations

  I was fourteen when Ty put me on the H.  All winter, I had helped him with chores, cleaning out stalls, setting up the milking, feeding cows hay, silage.  Summer, my brother was in the fields.  I had never thought about joining him. But when they showed me the Farmall tractor and I sat … Continue reading Ellen Stone on the Farmall Model H Tractor

  The Corridor Doop and the Inside Outlaws “Back in the summer of ’49, old Everett Belcher was runnin’ shine from the hills of Kentucky to the mills of Great Lakes Steel.”  So begins the title track from Doop and the Inside Outlaws’ 2009 record, Everett Belcher.  Many Americana songwriters arrogate working class themes and … Continue reading Contributor Cal Freeman on Doop and the Inside Outlaws’

          We wish you the best of luck in the selection process!  Poetry Heat by Ellen Stone Slickwater and Sand by Ruth Foley Driving in Nebraska and Listening to a Russian Band Play Dave Brubeck by Carol V. Davis Vertebrae by Jeremy Michael Reed Creature from the Black Lagoon by Ace … Continue reading Congrats to this year’s Best of the Net nominees!

Independence Pass Just before you reach Leadville, Colorado, a Victorian town with 11,000 feet of elevation and a population of less than 3,000, you reach a decision point in the road. That is where you’ll decide how you’ll like to cross into the mountains. The left path leads to a steady climb through the Rockies, … Continue reading Transportation Celebration — Corie Rosen on Dangerous Driving

Travelers  I walk to walk: the act has its own value, and the words, if they happen to arrive, are in the nature of a gift . . .  —Michael Dennis Browne, “Poetry and Walking” My students do not walk to school. Most take the schoolbus or arrive in their parents’ cars, always plugged into … Continue reading Transportation Celebration — Susanna Lang on Walking