University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program faculty member Stephen Kuusisto was joined by other contributors to the Seneca Review to read from a special issue of the review, “The Lyric Body.” Other readers were be J. Harley McIlrath, Rebecca...
J. Harley McIlrath reads from Possum Trot, a collection of essays. The pieces in Possum Trot form a lament for a way of life mostly gone. The family farm is dead. If E.B. White wrote Charlotte’s Web today it would take place in a hog confinement...
J. Harley McIlrath manages the Grinnell College bookstore and writes powerful fiction. He and his family live in rural Grinnell. ''Possum Trot' appeared in the most recent issue (#11) of Wapsipinicon Almanac. Since 1988 the almanac has been edited...