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How Agricultural Concerns Are Shifting Iowa’s Political Landscape Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen says agricultural issues like water pollution and cancer risk could sway the midterm elections.

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Conferring With Blackbirds Sounds of Silence, Ignorance, Fear, Voting Mythic, & Mulling Jazz

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Power of Words #5: Should Have, Would Have, Could Have What's true? "Don't it always seem to go/That you don't know what you've got/Till it's gone."

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An interview with Art Cullen, Pulitzer Prize winner with the Storm Lake Times Pilot. YouTube video by Robert Leonard

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Offering: Community Supported Literature (CSL) Shares A lengthy confession on the sincerity of words, authors, generosity, poems, writing, and publishing.

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I spoke with the moon early today a sort of braille within the sky, light clouds to interpret as the solstice approaches.

Q&A: Author Art Cullen on Rural Iowa and Screaming Louder | The Daily Yonder Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a

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I mean. In my world it’s small business Saturday every Saturday …

We Crapped In Our Nest - Ice Cube Press Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World | Art Cullen | $20 | 192p | ISBN 9781948509633  This is the right book at the right time. Read it. Share it. Use it.  Art on The Gi...

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We Crapped In Our Nest - Ice Cube Press Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World | Art Cullen | $20 | 192p | ISBN 9781948509633  This is the right book at the right time. Read it. Share it. Use it.  Art on The Gi...

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Higher Than The Sky Gang Sorrows, Regrets; Mimsy, Toves, & Writing

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Excellent piece!!!

Universal Truths Unspoken costs

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Art Cullen on Iowa's Corn Gospel, Cancer, and Capture Podcast Episode · The Gist · 10/31/2025 · 32m

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The Swine Republic - Ice Cube Press Takes a long hard look at the science, politics, culture, and economics of Iowa agriculture and the state’s degraded waters and connects the dots for everyone who wonders why progress toward improveme...

It’s been two years now but if you haven’t read this you might like it or hate it

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🌽 Art Cullen: How big Ag broke Iowa... and what comes next - Cornhole Champions #44 Toss some bags about Iowa’s petrochemical farm economy… the hollowing out of our small towns… And the politics of pollution and power…

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With alarm-clock urgency and breathtaking clarity, Art Cullen's new book tells us the rent is due for Iowa, the nation, and democracy itself With a rare sense of place, a know-it-when-you-see-it Iowa-ness, Art Cullen’s roaring new book is nothing short of an unsparing mirror for 3.3 million of us in the state.

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'These are vulgar times' Art Cullen on guns, church, water, immigration and hogs in America

Art Cullen's book went into a second printing after just 14 days.

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'These are vulgar times' Art Cullen on guns, church, water, immigration and hogs in America

Fantastic review. Thank you @phoebesaid.bsky.social

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Same as it ever was ... attaway & thataway No cheap writing solutions please

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Wow 100s & 100s showed up for @artcullen.bsky.social today at the Iowa City Book Festival apologize for those out in the hallways. Thank you #Iowa His new book is hitting a nerve with folks

'We're on a knife's edge': Art Cullen chides Reynolds' meanness, Big Ag's death grip on Iowa land and livelihoods - Little Village “When I was a kid in the 1960s, you could drive from Carroll to Storm Lake, and see cattle lining green hills the entire way,” Art Cullen said in a […]

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'We crapped in our nest' a conversation with Art Cullen The editor and co-owner of the Storm Lake Times Pilot discusses his new book, Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World.

The one and only @artcullen.bsky.social joined Talk of Iowa this week to talk about his new book.

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