by Leslie Merritt | Nov 27, 2024 | Magazine Article
I’m honored to be the new editor of Wisconsin People & Ideas. I’ve been writing about scientists, artists, community leaders, and historical figures connected to our state for almost 20 years, since my freshman year as a journalism student at the University...
by Lizzie Condon | Nov 11, 2024 | Magazine Article
For over 40 years, Groundswell Conservancy has been protecting special places in and around Dane County. Now, they are focusing on how land trusts like theirs can help mitigate climate change. Land trusts are community-based nonprofits that work to permanently...
by Dan Lyksett | Nov 11, 2024 | Magazine Article
At one point in Dave Greschner’s 40-plus years as an outdoor writer and columnist, a critic complained that his columns were shifting from being “actively engaging” with nature to a more “observational and introspective tone.” Greschner took it as a compliment. In his...
by Richie Zaborowske | Nov 11, 2024 | Magazine Article
The characters in Christopher Chambers’ short story and flash fiction collection, Kind of Blue, wield hammers and crawl under cars, and at the end of a long shift they punch time clocks. They curse and quarrel and fall in and out of love and, more often than not,...
by Sophie Nunberg | Nov 11, 2024 | Magazine Article
Through an intimate examination of his experience as an educator and as a student, Sean Enfield’s Holy American Burnout! is a collection of powerful essays whose goal is to deconstruct ideals of whiteness, challenge capitalism, and confront the power structures in...
by Angela Trudell Vasquez | Nov 11, 2024 | Magazine Article
Kimberly Blaeser’s latest collection of poems, Ancient Light, is a gift to the world of poetry. These well-crafted poems leap off the page, nestle under our bones and sing to us. A generous poet, we understand her concerns throughout whether we are in a memory or she...
