by Rootstalk
by Spring 2023 Editors
by Mark Baechtel
In a community writing workshop, Rootstalk’s Editor discovered a small town’s true diversity.
by Emily Mamrak
by Emma Thomasch and Madeline Warnick
It’s a familiar trope: a young person departs a small town and heads for the big city, forsaking the precincts of childhood. That was me at eighteen, leaving my Midwestern hometown.
When the spring comes around, Midwesterners hit the road.
A college class’s struggle to frame a land acknowledgement statement reminded Rootstalk Editor Mark Baechtel of the time when, trying to write a newspaper column about an indigenous artist and the issue of respect, he learned a painful lesson about white privilege.
by Hannah Agpoon
