by Max Garland | Jan 7, 2013 | Magazine Article
It’s less lonely than it used to be, what with the forests stripped down to the minimum now, and the white lines painted on the Oakwood Mall lot and the cars parked like brothers, in order of their arrival, the sheen of the Lord upon them, however, the last as...
by Andrea Lochen | Nov 7, 2012 | Magazine Article
My girlfriend Elena doesn’t sleep at night anymore. It’s been twenty-three days. I wake up to find her unraveling herself at the foot of the bed each morning. Her scarf, the wool jacket with its missing buttons, the layers that distinguish her from the other city...
by Liam Kane-Grade | Nov 6, 2012 | Magazine Article
A good number of Wisconsinites, it is fair to assume, are unfamiliar with the Bark River in southeast Wisconsin. Starting in Richfield (not far from Milwaukee) and ending in Fort Atkinson, the Bark River is a tributary of the Rock River, which is itself a tributary of...
by Erika Janik | Nov 6, 2012 | Magazine Article
Algebra textbooks are something I’ve tried hard to avoid since high school. Deciphering pages of what seemed incomprehensible sequences of numbers—not to mention the x’s and y’s that seemed so friendly when known as “letters” and so forbidding as “variables”— consumed...
by Martha Glowacki, Greg Conniff | Nov 6, 2012 | Magazine Article
For more than thirty years photographer Greg Conniff has focused his attention on the landscapes of daily life—from backyards to the rural countryside—with the conviction that these places and how they look are the soil into which we sink our roots as human beings and...
by John Lehman | Nov 6, 2012 | Magazine Article
Richard E. Carter is a geographer, aviator, naturalist, essayist, and poet whose life path has led from a career in city planning back into the natural world. His writing invites readers to share his vision and adventures. In Through the Cabin Door (Appleport Press,...
