by Jeff Snowbarger | Mar 10, 2021 | Magazine Article
Few things have shaped our state more than the Wisconsin Idea, a more-than-century-old commitment of the University of Wisconsin to serve the state’s citizens. To this day, the fingerprints of the Wisconsin Idea are clearly visible on Wisconsin’s education, economy,...
by James Roberts | Mar 10, 2021 | Magazine Article
As with his two previous poetry collections, Sailing To Ithaca and The Giving Of Pears, Abayomi Animashaun’s Seahorses does not hesitate to present stark truths in real-world settings. Seahorses begins with a poem titled “Aubade” in which Animashaun transforms the...
by Jody Clowes | Mar 10, 2021 | Magazine Article
I’ve been working with Wisconsin artists at the James Watrous Gallery for over a decade, and I am continually impressed by how many prominent artists in our state are first-generation immigrants. For this issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas, we asked six of these...
by Dawn Hogue | Mar 8, 2021 | Magazine Article
First cited in the sixteenth century (specifically in a book called Dice-Play), the expression [brown study]—which describes a state of intense, sometimes melancholy reverie, really seems to have hit its stride in the nineteenth.—From “Golden...
by Elisabeth Harrahy | Mar 8, 2021 | Magazine Article
of the need for lyricwhispers and fingertipsbehind my earlike a distant melody of dappled water that flowswhere tulips opentheir soft petals spreadinglike a morning yawn of the weight of the stonesthat left my body imprintedmy bones brandedmy hands a delicate muzzle...
by Sherry Blakeley | Mar 8, 2021 | Magazine Article
Solid as fish shimmerleaping from the skyto regain its ground,its Rock River,its Seine. This bluethis morning is mere garmentsde mes mémoires faibles. It is glass cracking inwardindifferent to the downwashing yellow.It doesn’t thinkI am weaker,I am being overtaken. I...
