Last month, George Bilgere won the Pushcart Prize — a prestigious American literary award — for his poem “Graduates of Western Military Academy.” You can read his poem on John Carroll University’s Web site. But check out the ode to Interstate I-480 Bilgere wrote for our December 2004 East vs. West issue in our archive.
The land we call “Northeast Ohio” was originally forged through eons of glacial pressure and continues to be transformed countless times, as told by this excerpt from An Alternative History of Cleveland, which uncovers the worst blackout in the history of North America. By Jon Wlasiuk
e0fbe070-4c78-404d-ad7c-c7cf9c3561be.jpg?sfvrsn=4f4cfb8c_1&w=220&auto=compress%2cformat "Jon Wlasiuk author of An Alternative History of Cleveland (Libby Gobey)")