by Sylvia Cavanaugh | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
Wisconsin poet Maryann Hurtt’s groundbreaking new book, Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices, gives poetic voice to hard truths about Oklahoma’s Tar Creek environmental disaster, truths researched and supported with historical documents and interviews. Lead and...
by Marja Mills | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
The narrator of Jackie Polzin’s memorable first novel, “Brood,” pays exquisite attention to the seemingly ordinary world around her. Her husband, an academic, builds a chicken coop behind their home in a deteriorating neighborhood of North Minneapolis. She examines...
by Rudy Molinek | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
More than two billion years of Earth history, and thousands of years of human history, have shaped the physical landscape in Wisconsin and, in turn, influences how we live with the land. In The Geography of Wisconsin, written by John A. Cross and illustrated by...
by Nikki Wallschlaeger | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
My fav event as harvest season approachesis the rough seed that escaped the plots. If there’s a cornfield adjacent to another bedof vegetables, you can count on imperfection, you can see stalks standing where they’renot supposed to be, the winds have ideas, seeds...
by Nikki Wallschlaeger | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
Howl somethingyou want heard, guaranteedyou’ll be hunted. Howl somethingsweet and it won’tmatter either. Someone will starta murder club builtfor your friends, holding contestsfor the most killed. They’ll shoot, yell,smoke you out ofyour own company, take a sharp...
by Pete Koz | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
In the sediment, years of beaten red granite, submissive to currentThe broken headlight lies.(The old woman, down off Highway 164, could tell youIt comes from a 20th-centuryGerman hatchback.Not that it matters much.)Ten feet under water, the wiresHave long forgotten...
