by Marilyn Annucci | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
One crosses the street, ribs like ladder rungs leaning inside him. I want to climb to God, ask and ask. The streets are full of crushed plastic bottles. The mountain air has left us winded. On the coast we sit in open huts, wear flip flops to the shore, each grain of...
by Jill Stukenberg | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
The day her children went over the cliff on the hiking trail at Eagle Crest, Regina Mayer was in the park gift shop, idly fingering a pair of sunglasses that she knew she wasn’t going to buy, that she didn’t even like the look of but had removed from their holes in...
by Jim Stevens, Kimberly M. Blaeser | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
For years Jim Stevens and Kimberly Blaeser have promoted the exploration of poetry and creative writing among Native American peoples, fostering expression and examination of Native culture through the written word in formal and informal courses here in Wisconsin and...
by Gina LaLiberte | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Unsightly multi-colored algal blooms appeared earlier than usual on lakes across Wisconsin in the summer of 2012. Their premature arrival was induced in part by an exceptionally warm period in March when temperature records were set throughout the state. The...
by Katie Ginther, Liam Kane-Grade | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
For nearly a century, a General Motors assembly plant was the economic hub of Janesville, Wisconsin, employing some 7,000 workers at its peak of operation. During the sport utility vehicle boom of the 1990s, the plant shifted its base production to the large-size,...
by Phil Busse | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
When we first meet Henry Skrimshander, one of the charming-but-flawed characters in Chad Harbach’s debut novel, The Art of Fielding, he is a scrawny hayseed. A talented shortstop in South Dakota, Henry, like most teenage athletes, dreams about playing in the Major...
