by Jenna Rindo | Aug 2, 2018 | Magazine Article
of a wasp appear from layersof lace in your wedding dress.It has just enough zest leftto sting like old vows and brokenpromises. That same day you aredeep into spring cleaning yourdaughter brings homelice. Live insects are crawlingthrough her crooked part. You...
by Michael Hopkins | Aug 2, 2018 | Magazine Article
I got stung. On my ankle, I saw three bees, and could feel them right through my sock. I brushed them off, escaped from our vegetable garden where I was weeding, and ran into the house. “Damn it,” I said to Betty, my wife, who was chopping carrots, “I got stung.”...
by Thomas Ferrella | Aug 2, 2018 | Magazine Article
I came to this project through another life. In 1991, when I was working as an emergency medicine physician, I observed the construction of a memorial at the intersection of East Washington Avenue and 4th Street in Madison where two young Madison East High School...
by Eric Carson | Aug 2, 2018 | Magazine Article
People tend to see a river as an immutable part of the landscape. We notice the changes that happen on a monthly and seasonal basis: the effects of spring snowmelt and summer drought and the rise and fall of intermittent floods. But we generally accept the notion that...
by Christopher Hollenback, Michael Fiore | Aug 1, 2018 | Magazine Article
As a boy growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Boston, Michael Fiore bought packs and packs of Winston brand cigarettes for his mother. Hyde Park was a rough part of Boston in the 1960s, and Fiore remembers “living in a city surrounded by smokers” and feeling...
by Jason Smith, Scott Gordon | Aug 1, 2018 | Magazine Article
For over fifteen years, David Jorgenson* has been digging up and selling wild ginseng roots that grow on his property near the Mississippi River in Vernon County. Like many “diggers,” Jorgenson got into ginseng harvesting after a neighbor saw a few of the...
