by John Lehman | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Since the beginning of time it seems poets have been preoccupied with birds. Wordsworth’s cuckoo and Keats’ nightingale come immediately to mind. As does Wallace Stevens’ blackbird (and the thirteen ways of looking at it). At first look I thought I...
by Marysa LaRowe | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
The summer Pastor Frank Mueller lost his mind, it rained so hard and so quickly in the town of Ryeford, Illinois that the waters of the marsh spilled into our basements and flooded Gary Avenue from North High all the way to the tracks. The foundation of the...
by Erin Aagesen | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
One Wisconsin nurse will never forget a patient she treated several years ago. When the patient woke up from surgery for a hysterectomy, she asked the nurse when she could start trying to get pregnant. The patient—who had no apparent literacy problems—had signed...
by Sara Raab | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
After ten years, what still draws people to the Wisconsin Book Festival?Though we are, and will continue to be, a book festival, we’re a lot of other things, too. Sometimes I wish we could call ourselves an idea festival, because while we mostly deal with books and...
by Randall Berndt | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Two books recently published by the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend celebrate the artistic lives—as well as the married life—of two beloved Milwaukee artists: Schomer Lichtner and Ruth Grotenrath. Author Susan J. Montgomery, a close friend of the couple, provides...
by Sara Raab | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Cowfeather Press’s mission is to bring the work of Wisconsin poets and poetry into the light, by publishing books written by deserving Wisconsin authors, by building audience for poetry across the state, and by encouraging all Wisconsin poets to write to their highest...
