by Chelsea Chandler | Oct 10, 2018 | Magazine Article
From powering our homes, offices, and even cars, to fueling the industries that make just about every component found in each, electricity is central to our modern lives. Yet, for all the positives that come with ubiquitous, relatively inexpensive electricity, the...
by Andy Adams, Clarissa Bonet, Jess T. Dugan, Tytia Habing, Jon Horvath, Julie Renee Jones, Dave Jordano, Nathan Pearce, Barry Phipps, Jason Vaughn, Lindley Warren | Aug 13, 2018 | Magazine Article
There’s a quote I scribbled on a yellow piece of paper and taped to my bedroom wall back when I was twenty-five-years old: “A place is artistic if an artist lives there.” At the time, this idea was really important to me because I felt like a failure for never leaving...
by Mark Zimmermann | Aug 13, 2018 | Magazine Article
Readers familiar with Anishinaabe poet Denise Sweet’s work must be well aware of how engaged and perceptive she is as an interpreter of what’s going on in the world, how things happen, and why they matter. A professor emerita of Humanistic Studies, Creative Writing,...
by Shelby Anderson | Aug 13, 2018 | Magazine Article
Michael Edmonds’s new book, Taking Flight: A History of Birds and People in the Heart of America, provides an enlightening and well-researched account of our always-evolving relationship with birds. Edmonds is director of programs and outreach at the Wisconsin...
by Justine Jones | Aug 2, 2018 | Magazine Article
There was a boy who was not yet a man who spent a summer graftingbuds onto peach branches. It was hot; it was the bay shore ofMaryland and 1974. He carried a small knife and used it with hishands, used it to open with his hands. With each slit on the already-tree he...
by Thomas Erickson | Aug 2, 2018 | Magazine Article
What kind of times are these, whento talk about trees is almost a crimebecause it implies silence about so many horrors?—Bertolt Brecht, “To Those Born Later” My sons told me that November was comingbut I didn’t believe them. There’s no wayit will ever be November, I...
