by Ron Kuka | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
One morning in 1978, the novelist David Rhodes rolled his wheelchair to the door of his farmhouse in rural Wisconsin to find his neighbor, Dick Woolever, waiting to make him an offer. “God woke me up in the night and told me how to make an elevator for you,” he said....
by Leo Aguilar | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
Once a week, from late spring to early fall, Vollrath Park on the northeast side of Sheboygan transforms from a serene lakeside park to a bustling mall of hungry people and colorful food trucks. From specialty sandwiches, burgers, and pizza to Mexican, Thai, and...
by Erika Monroe-Kane | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
Every election, my parents would joke about how their votes would cancel each other’s out. They agreed to disagree and there were some topics my parents did not debate. However, when my siblings and I became teens, no topic was off the table and our political debates...
by Christopher Chambers | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
About the time I started thinking about the editor’s note for this issue, my wife and I went up north for a weekend with my cousin and her husband who have a place in Sawyer County, near Exeland where my grandparents lived during Prohibition. Family lore has it that...
by Grant McGinnis | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
Climate change is real. That’s not news to elders in Wisconsin’s Native American communities. They see it, they feel it, and they are taking action to deal with it. “Our elders have watched climate change on their tribal lands from when they were young. They have seen...
by Bella Bravo | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
In her debut story collection Milk Blood Heat, Dantiel W. Moniz handles the concept of human connection as if it were a jewel, inspecting its every facet, glint, and shadow. Milk, blood, and heat are all conduits by which we share a part of ourselves with others....
