Richard Holinger’s work has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Iowa Review, Southern Review, Hobart, Chautauqua, Cimarron Review, has garnered four Pushcart Prize nominations and a “Notable” essay in Best American Essays 2018. Books include North of Crivitz (poetry) and Kangaroo Rabbits and Galvanized Fences (essays). He holds a doctorate in Creative Writing from UIC and lives northwest of Chicago where an occasional fox, deer, turkey, blue heron, and eagle pass through.
At dusk the crows crowd in, black clouds swarming to beeches stripped of leaves above a creek nearly drained by summer’s heat. A pickup with a farmer and his son pulls up beside me. Some cattle got out of their pen, but, except for one lone calf still loose, the others followed the lowing home. The radio reported this morning… Read more →
We came to New Town as newlyweds. They let us in. Hugs made us feel welcome. They gave us our stations and we started our internships. Everyone helped us acclimate. Soon we felt integrated. Milandra took to having babies and nurturing them, while I took to giving archery lessons. I held them in the woods, beyond the wall. We shot… Read more →