Once and Future Kingdoms

 

“Once and Future Kingdoms: Real Histories Meet Sci-Fi Apocalypse  at Michael Heizer’s City”
by William Stobb
North American Review Volume 311, Number 1, Spring 2026

Music by El Valiente, used with permission

William Stobb

William Stobb is the author of six poetry collections, including You Are Still Alive (2019 42 Miles Press), the National Poetry Series Selection Nervous Systems (2007 Penguin Books), and Absentia (2012 Penguin Books). He holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of North Dakota, and a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of Nevada, Reno. Stobb works on the Creative Writing faculty at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, and as Associate Editor of the literary magazine Conduit and its publishing arm, Conduit Books and Ephemera. Along with his family and his dog, he lives along the Mississippi River, in the Driftless Area of Southwestern Wisconsin.

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