Hennebach Speaker Series: Land of Good Men, with Lucas Bessire

How do upheavals of masculinity, ecologies, and democracy converge on the American Great Plains? What kind of writing can contribute to wider efforts to reclaim common ground at this pivotal historical moment? To explore such questions, this reading from a manuscript-in-progress excavates the emotional and environmental terrain of the author’s family homestead located along western Oklahoma’s Hundredth Meridian, where tensions of damage and repair accrete over generations.