by John McCracken | May 4, 2022 | Magazine Article
It’s a noun, a verb, an exclamation, and a hot bowl of everything but the kitchen sink. Booyah, a regional soup, holds a firm grip over the people of Green Bay and northeast Wisconsin at large. Residents take pride in preparing large batches of booyah (the soup) for a...
by Mark Zimmermann | Feb 25, 2022 | Magazine Article
Early in Richard Merelman’s poetry collection A Door Opens, a teenage boy appears surrounded by “A sea of images, language, / sensation” exploring sex and violence. And since this takes place in mid-20th century America, it’s no surprise that Casablanca, Playboy, Lady...
by Angela Trudell Vasquez | Feb 25, 2022 | Magazine Article
Margaret Rozga’s latest collection consists of poems from three previous collections—200 Nights and One Day, Justice Freedom Herbs, Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems—as well as newer poems, some of which she wrote during the pandemic. Published by UW-Stevens...
by Margaret Rozga | Feb 25, 2022 | Magazine Article
After writing Studying Wisconsin, a biography of Increase Lapham co-authored with Paul Hayes, Martha Bergland was looking for another Wisconsin scientist whose life and work deserved more attention. She learned of Thure Kumlien in a poem by Lorine Niedecker, who, like...
by Judith Harway | Feb 25, 2022 | Magazine Article
The Haskell Free Library straddles the U. S. / Canadian border between Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont. The border is marked by a line of black tape on the floor of the reading room. Because people from countries like Iran studying in the U. S. on...
by Mark Knickelbine | Feb 25, 2022 | Magazine Article
My dear friendyou are wrong to saythere are only stories. Stories need bodies—larynx, tongue and teethhands to scratch them down tympany and thalamuseyes to readand bundles of neurons in the heart and gut. Stories need bodies to devise thembodies to receive themand...
