by Jane Elder | Aug 19, 2019 | Magazine Article
It seems these days that discussions of metrics and measuring success are humming around me like the mosquitoes in my garden. It might be the influence of the time I spend working on grant proposals and program evaluations, or maybe it is all those social media posts...
by Jane Elder | Jun 11, 2019 | Magazine Article
As we gear up to celebrate our 150th anniversary in 2020, I’ve been reflecting on the beginnings of the Academy and the ways in which our core values—curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, and civil discourse—have informed our work for nearly a century and half....
by Thomas Davis | May 16, 2019 | Magazine Article
Few books pace themselves with the resonance of truth telling. These rare books can be fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, but within the story being told is a heart beating in time with constant universal rhythms. Thomas D. Peacock, a resident of Red Cliff, Wisconsin,...
by Mark Zimmermann | May 16, 2019 | Magazine Article
Spectral presences flit in and out of In Light, Always Light, Milwaukee poet Angela Trudell Vasquez’s first chapbook. Ghosts appear with purposeful messages, the voices of dead ancestors echo, and human remains float over a city. But In Light, Always Light is at the...
by Alexander Shashko | May 16, 2019 | Magazine Article
Southeastern Wisconsin is the western boundary of the “Rust Belt,” a phrase popularized by presidential candidate Walter Mondale in 1984 to describe a sizeable chunk of America that was—and still is—facing an uncertain post-industrial future. Highway 26 is arguably...
by Mark Zimmermann | May 16, 2019 | Magazine Article
—Hyogo-ken, June 1991 Because her hands driftedin a pantomime of flightrising and floatingin one sweeping arcunspooling the paperacross the spotless bladethat ran the length of the roll, because the paper risingalong with her handsabove the wooden counterwas...
