by C.E. Perry | Apr 11, 2013 | Magazine Article
Draw a line to five, when Frank Bitsueis hauling water from the well then counthis living grandchildren and divide themby the ones who chased sheep into the rain.Subract the crash. Add summers and sleep ofnine kids laughing in the truck’s bed. Extendyour line at...
by William Quist | Apr 11, 2013 | Magazine Article
I guess you didn’t get my letter, since youdied before I put it in the mail.But maybe that’s OK—I mean, whatwas left to say anyway? Confession (I neverenjoyed hunting, or peeing in public)?Are you proud of me? Will I see you again?I’m taking a class...
by Geoffrey Collins | Apr 11, 2013 | Magazine Article
In cold darkness calling from tree to treeLaughing at our foolish dreamsCrooning love in a long lost keyFeathers at once oil slick and tricksterSwitchblade beaks and talons like fish hooksEyes of blown glass tricked out in starlightEyes like deep...
by Jason Smith | Mar 1, 2013 | Magazine Article
When a group of Mineral Point artists and community members got together on a chilly autumn evening in 2004 to found Shake Rag Alley School for Arts and Crafts, they had no idea they were at the forefront of a movement called creative placemaking. A 2010 National...
by Erika Janik | Mar 1, 2013 | Magazine Article
Michael Perry is upset. The county highway commission wants to reconfigure the patch of road near his house, making it impossible for cars to climb the hill to his home in the winter. His neighbor Tom Hartwig, a feisty octogenarian with a “ye olde curiosity workshop”...
by CX Dillhunt | Mar 1, 2013 | Magazine Article
How morning can be transalpine How the vestiges of summer are falling How the window can be empty and still How the curtain isn’t moving How the bed curtails movement How fear can be found How finding is fearful How a teaspoon of salt falls How fall is around...
