by Margaret Rozga | Feb 27, 2013 | Magazine Article
In addition to being a poet and a playwright, you are also a Civil Rights activist. How do your ideas from one realm influence another? The short and simple answer is probably that both activism and creative writing involve seeing, being aware beyond the obvious,...
by Michael Kriesel | Feb 27, 2013 | Magazine Article
Born in an Illinois barn, that two-headed calf became a coin Frank flipped through World War Two, judging heaven from a foxhole. “God loves evil… goodness too,” he testifies while pouring beer, half of him still watching one head blink a minute longer...
by CX Dillhunt | Feb 27, 2013 | Magazine Article
Not looking up at those lugubrious geese who knows if they looked Perhaps someone saw their underglow there riding in sight of twilight This kind of light holds on for more all the more re(peating) our arrhythmia Some crepuscular time it takes some time to be...
by Sara Raab | Feb 27, 2013 | Magazine Article
Old age, she thinks—what a strange thing to happen to a little girl. Her hands, which nothing passed through unchanged, feel gnarled. Her knees, which broke in half when she prayed to double her wisdom, wander as she walks. Her body seems to forget some of its...
by Jason Smith, Max Garland | Feb 27, 2013 | Magazine Article
When Max Garland received word from Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission chair Cathryn Cofell that he was the new Wisconsin Poet Laureate, he was taking part in an almost stereotypical Wisconsin tradition. “It was a typically frigid winter night in Wisconsin, and I,...
by Christine Stocke | Feb 22, 2013 | Magazine Article
There’s a body at the bottom of the lake. Probably many. The way you react depends on your definition of the word natural. Probably also on your moral compass, but I can’t just start with bodies. Life is about having stories. Once upon a time, a reporter stopped by...
