Water. Once, it was oil; now H2O is said to be king in Oklahoma. Last summer, streams and rivers in …
Thirty years ago, a petite woman with curly blonde hair approached Greg Saunders at a bike race just west of …
06/10/2013 | Okiecentric
The Man in the Black Jersey
Daughter/mother Victoria Fattig and Monica Sutter were both inmates at Mabel Bassett Correction Center in McLoud when this portrait was …
06/07/2013 | Original Okie
Victoria Fattig & Monica Sutter
Sitting down to speak with Oklahoma City photographer Yousef Khanfar about his art leads almost inevitably to one name: Georgia …
Cherokee Nation has what seems to be an unusual fixation with lawyers and writing—at least for an outsider looking in. …
06/03/2013 | Okiecentric
Cherokee Nation’s Constitutional Crisis
Summer in Oklahoma isn’t for the faint of heart. Between the heat, the never-ending hours of sunshine, and the kids …
05/30/2013 | Do
75 Free Things to do in Oklahoma This Summer
Editor’s note: The following news analysis article represents a deeper level of commitment to community news coverage. Look for more …
05/23/2013 | Special Report
Dealing With Brady’s Legacy
Originally published on the blog The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 on March 18, 2013. It is normal that we …
Native Americans within the uprooted “Five Civilized Tribes” found a new home in “Indian Territory”— Oklahoma. Decades later, these Indians …
Shaun Perkins forged the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry out of her father’s old machine shop as a tiny monument …
05/17/2013 | Original Okie
Shaun Perkins
On an oppressively hot evening last May, David Cornsilk addressed a room of so-called “black Indians” at Gilcrease Hills Baptist …
Questions have arisen regarding the May 15, 2013 cover image of This Land magazine which warrant an explanation. The cover …
05/15/2013 | Notices
Cherokee Freedmen Cover Explained
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05/06/2013 | Poetry
The B Side
Since April is National Poetry Month, we’re pleased to run poems by a pair of younger writers who participated in …
Since April is National Poetry Month, we’re pleased to run poems by a pair of younger writers who participated in …
05/03/2013 | Poetry
Howl for Me
Others have book fests, opera and garden expos. We have gun shows. Ammo. Freedom and now more freedom: open carry.…
02/18/2013 | Poetry
New Law Makes Local Poet Nervous
Where I come from, rain is the same thing as love, Falling rarely, and spoken about even less. Daddy tells …
02/04/2013 | Poetry
The Falling
The taste of red wine and dark chocolate Swirlin’ together inside my mouth is Like smoke escaping from the chimney…
Spring The wallows are full. Egrets range on bison backs — colors rise sunward. Summer Their wallows are dust. Bison …
12/09/2012 | Poetry
A Year with the Bison
Again I slid up over the horizon and the lights of Tulsa spread flat out before me. “Ah, there you …
Lifted their bikes up- side down above their thousand heads and cheered locked the grid
11/12/2012 | Poetry
Critical Mass
me and my best friend k.t. hurtled down chug holed roads in her green Gran Torino, racing almost as fast …
10/29/2012 | Poetry
1977 Seminole County
A triumvirate of sad-eyed raccoons lounging on the roof of an apartment building in Stillwater benignly surveys the progress of …
10/04/2012 | Poetry
Rooftop Raccoons
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding …
09/28/2012 | New Fiction
An Unscheduled Stop
Edwin spotted them the moment he stepped off the train. There were dozens of folks here to meet the Atlantic …
09/21/2012 | New Fiction
Summons to Tulsa
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