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Inside Root River Current | Three Years Strong – And Counting!

RRA title photo

Essay | The Root River Anthology: Five Years Later

Author Ken McCullough (submitted photo)

Poetry | Missing Those Who Left Us

A red-brown hairy calf with ears sticking out to the sides stands in front of a large black cow in a green pasture.

Essay | The Cows are Out!

A eagle stretches its wings out as it takes off and flies away from the camera across a gravel driveway. The bird flies about two feet off the ground and its shadow is beneath in on the gravel.

Poetry | Three Haiku for Summer

An illustration of two large horses pulling farm equipment through a brown field with a dark gray and yellow cloudy sky behind them.

Essay | A Teacher, a Rooster and an Outhouse

A book cover with a closeup image of wood planks showing the grain. One end grain looks like a five-petaled flower. The words on the cover are in a grainy type of red and white and say "A Good Sauna Always Burns Down".

Poetry | Finnish-American Heritage Reflected in New Collection

Cover art from a book of fiction by Emilio DeGrazia. (submitted photo)

Poetry | Junk Love and Other Poems

photo of lady slipper flowers

Poetry | “Love…” In Springtime

(Photo submitted by Jeff Gorfine)

Poetry | A Tanka and Two Haiku

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