by Jason Smith | Oct 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
You might have noticed something different about our cover. This will be the first issue in my thirteen years as editor of the magazine in which we don’t feature a real person on the cover. I thought that featuring a figurative sculpture—or imagined person, if you...
by Jane Elder | Oct 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
When I was handed a key to the Academy office building in January of 2012, I had no idea it would be the beginning of a ten-year journey. And what a journey it has been. As this will be my last column in the magazine as executive director, I want to say thank you to...
by Jason Smith | Aug 2, 2021 | Magazine Article
For those of us who have been taking shelter among words during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new collection of Wisconsin poetry created just for the occasion has arrived. Published by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and Middleton-based Bent Paddle Press, Sheltering with...
by Rachel Durfee | Jul 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
by Christopher Chambers | Jul 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
I don’t entirely judge a book by its cover, but I do appreciate a well-designed one. Anthony Bukoski’s The Blondes of Wisconsin is a good-looking book—though the image of the old red brick warehouse on the cover creates some dissonance. It turns out that the warehouse...
by Gary Jones | Jul 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
A family’s history, like an old jigsaw puzzle, often has missing pieces, stories forgotten or kept secret. A present generation looks at old black-and-white photos, at miscellaneous mementos, or, sometimes, at a few hand written letters, and tries to piece together...
