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Gifts of the Superior Hiking Trail
Walking into Myself
By Mikkel Beckmen

​Mikkel Beckmen did a solo thru hike of the Superior Hiking Trail in 2021. The 310 mile trail skirts Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world. On his 24 days of hiking he brought no music, electronics, or even books. Just a journal to record thoughts each day. The book has 24 chapters, one for each day of hiking the trail. It is an ode to self-discovery, the natural world, and one person's question, "Who am I in relation to wilderness and to the land?"
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The Author
Mikkel Beckmen is a folk percussionist who lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has been involved for over 30 years in the human rights struggle to end homelessness. He prefers being outside, but when inside, he drinks coffee, reads books, and listens to records.
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Ocooch Mountain Echo Magazine: Issue 5 (Summer 2023)

Ocooch Mountain Echo - Issue 5
​(Summer 2023)
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​A seasonal magazine focused on the Driftless area of the Upper Midwest. Art, History, Storytelling, Music, Photography -- all with a unique bioregional tang.
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Ocooch Mountain Echo Magazine: Issue 4 (Winter/Spring 2023)

Ocooch Mountain Echo - Issue 4
​(Winter /Spring 2023)
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To Our Lady of Lost Delights
​by Ron Byers
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To Our Lady of Lost Delights explores the wonderful and surreal photography and poetry of Ron Byers. He has worked as a fine arts photographer & photo-illustrator for books and magazines and writes quirky, satirical, dark humor poetry, often looking at the Divine Fool aspects of human nature. He is drawn to the oral traditions of poetry and often collaborates with musicians for recordings and performances. He also hosts a radio program exploring the dynamic realms of wordplay and music collaboration.​​
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Glass on the Passenger Seat: A Travel Journal
​by Sarah Vos

Glass on the Passenger Seat is gleaned from two years of journal entries made by Americana music artist Sarah Vos of Dead Horses. It is a "no pulled punches" memoir of her struggles with family history, depression, anxiety, and life on the road. Equal parts heartbreaking and adventurous, it is a rare look into the life and mind of one of the Upper Midwest's best current songwriters.​
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The Author
Born in the Michigan U.P. and raised in Wisconsin, Sarah Vos has been expressing herself through music and song her entire life. In 2010, she helped form the indie-folk band, Dead Horses. Since then she has spent countless nights on the road performing with the likes of Trampled by Turtles, Elephant Revival, Mandolin Orange, and The Who. Just as memorable, many more nights in less glamorous spots, contemplating the highs and lows of life on the road.​
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Ocooch Mountain Echo Magazine: Issue 3 (Fall)

Ocooch Mountain Echo - Issue 3 (Fall)
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​Culture, mystery, and adventure in the Driftless region. Ocooch Mountain News was a publication back in the 1970s out of Richland Center, WI -- some of the same intention here with the lens as the Driftless Region.
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​Last of the Better Days Ahead

Charlie Parr
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In his fiction debut, readers are treated to a deep dive into the architecture of a group of Charlie’s songs. Like old, well-hewn gospel songs, there is both darkness and light. There are tales of childhood, families, cantankerous uncles and aunts, and slightly lost individuals. Through keyholes opening into rays of light, the reader watches the lives of everyday humans unrolling in unheroic yet poetic and unvarnished ways that those that love Parr’s songs will cherish. As Abraham Smith writes in the book’s introduction, “It's a great plenty and promises plenty more. I know I feel a delicious undertow on the final page; can't wait to start again at word one; and then to find a good walking stick for Charlie's next river road of prose.”​
The Author
Charlie Parr is an American country blues musician. Born in Austin, Minnesota, he spent part of his childhood in Hollandale before starting his music career in Duluth. His influences include Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Reverend Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, and Mississippi John Hurt.
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Vacation's Over
Poems by Palmer T. Lee
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One-half of the dynamic and mesmerizing alt-folk band The Lowest Pair, Palmer T. Lee was a bard before he was a troubadour. He in fact began writing songs to be able to hear his poems. Just like his songs, there is playfulness and wonder a plenty in this book. Born in Farmington, MN he now makes his home in the Pacific Northwest.
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Ocooch Mountain Echo - Issue 2 (Summer)
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​Culture, mystery, and adventure in the Driftless region. Ocooch Mountain News was a publication back in the 1970s out of Richland Center, WI -- some of the same intention here with the lens as the Driftless Region.
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Ocooch Mountain Echo Magazine: Issue 1 (Winter)
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Blanket License
Rodysill says of the poems in Blanket License “A lot of this came out of my personal struggles with mental illness, regret, and suffering.  They say pain creates the only great art.  I don’t know if that’s true, and I don’t know if this is great art, but I have high hopes that it is.  All I can say is that I tried to be as honest as I could be, and that these poems mean something to me.  I hope they mean something to others as well.”​
The Author
It’s been a decade since Bret Rodysill released a well received EP under his musical moniker The Record Summer, followed five years later by a couple singles through London’s Loose Narrative label. During that time he pulled high profile gigs at CMJ and SXSW. The sparse offerings are attributed to an intense, nervous system disorder, and subsequent mental illness, that led to hospitalization and a hiatus from recording and performing.
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The Last Noble Thing
is a unique collaboration between songwriter Carlisle Evans Peck and artist Bryce Burton. Burton’s full-color, intricate drawings are paired with each song lyric by Evans Peck. The book also includes a personalized download code for the accompanying album of Evans Peck's music.​​
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The Author
Pianist,  Composer,Singer-Songwriter.
Carlisle Evans Peck strives for the heart of human connection through his compositions and musical performance. Equally at home in a wooded glade or on a cabaret stage, his music conjures a melancholia of intense beauty.
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IT's HARD TO BE A PERSON: defeating anxiety, surviving the world and having more fun.​

MINI SYNOPSIS:
Blending humor with mental health struggles, alternative songwriter/illustrator/podcaster Brett Newski makes fun of his own anxieties by offering mental health boosts in his first book " It's Hard to be a Person: defeating anxiety, surviving the world, and having more fun." 
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“It’s Hard to be a Person” BOOK SYNOPSIS:
Years ago, somewhere on the Internet, I posted a few dumb drawings making fun of my own anxiety and depression.
The response to them was warmer than anticipated. So I kept going, and after about three years of drawing, I had enough drawings for a book called It's Hard to be a Person: defeating anxiety, surviving the world, and having more fun.

Humor has always been a primary mode of therapy for me. I still make fun of my own anxiety and depression as catharsis. I sing about it on tour, talk about it on my podcast, and draw pictures of it here in this book. Putting my formerly-private-feelings out into the world has been tremendous therapy for me, and I wish I would’ve done it sooner.

Over the span of many years, I’ve been illustrating the “hacks”, “strategies”, or “exercises” that have worked best for me in combating the struggles in my head. More than anything I want this book to be useful for people.

I’m not a doctor, just a person who spends too much time in my head. The objective of It’s Hard to Be a Person is not to give unsolicited advice, but to hopefully save you some headaches on the long n’ winding road of life in your brain.
BRETT NEWSKI is an alternative songwriter, illustrator and podcaster based in Milwaukee, WI, USA. He has been featured on Rolling Stone, NPR, American Songwriter, SiriusXM, Boston Globe, and Paste. 

Newski has played alongside acts like Pixies, Violent Femmes, Courtney Barnett, Manchester Orchestra, Better than Ezra & New Pornographers. He continues to tour over 100 dates per year. 

​Newski's podcast Dirt from the Road also dives into mental health boosts. Guests include The Lumineers, All American Rejects, Dashboard Confessional, Guster, Heartless Bastards, Verve Pipe, Toad the Wet Sprocket and Frank Turner. Hear here: https://brettnewski.biglink.to/dirtfromtheRoad

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I Only
Asked
​For Blue
Herein lies the ineffable power of an experience born of living a life of loves and lives lost and found, and ultimately, redeemed.

Tim Eddy writes poetry and songs from his rural home in the heart of the driftless region of Wisconsin. 
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flower
​house and
feral sun
​is a collection of poems written over the past two years by La Crosse, WI poet Peter Engen. Like his literary inspirations Bukowski, Fante and Robert Bly, he draws pictures of everyday life with gusto and insightfulness. These musings are part darkness and part sublime, reveling in the seasons painted by the natural world and the world inside.

Grateful acknowledgements to the editors of the following magazines, where some of these poems first appeared:
Halfway Down the Stairs, La Piccioletta Barca, High Shelf, Steam Ticket, Avocet, and Contours
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​Peter Engen grew up in the oldest Norwegian settlement West of the Mississippi. He has lived most of his life in the hills and unglaciated valleys of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Some of his deepest poet yearnings were sought and quenched in the megalopolis cities of New York and Los Angeles before returning to his roots in the Upper Midwest.
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