JWKropf
@jwkropf
Lawyer, author, lover of the fall and the Great Lakes. Most recent books: A Midwestern Heart: Poems, and Color Capital of the World. No coherent logic to posting — usually nonsense and wordplay. Always curious. Johnkropf.com.
A couple of good finds on ohio history from Dark star books in yellow springs ohio.
“Boy of the neighbourhood? Hey?…Well! Behave yourself. I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you’re a bad set of fellows. Now mind!” said he, biting the side of his great forefinger as he frowned at me, “you behave yourself!”
Quick 24 hour visit to Chicago w view from the cliff dwellers and obligatory visit to the bean
Enjoying my copy of this super duper double issue of Middle West Review this morning. Also excited to see my piece “That’s Going to Leave a Mark: Tommy Boy Fest Comes to my Hometown” in this issue.
Life imitates Art. From last August, my piece on Tommy Boy Fest (IM me if the link doesn't open for you) drive.google.com/file/d/1gAhe...
25 years ago, I lived in the authoritarian country of Turkmenistan where the leader ruled with a cult a personality putting his name and pictures on everything. He also declared the country was living in a “golden age.” Our president follows this path with eerie similarity.