by Jason Smith | Jul 24, 2018 | Magazine Article
They said it was crazy—no, unconscionable—that I, born and raised in Wisconsin, had never been to a Culver’s Restaurant. Nikita, who grew up in Sauk City with one of the Culver kids, used to go there all the time. Amanda travels a lot between Madison and Sparta to...
by Jane Elder | Jul 24, 2018 | Magazine Article
Midwesterners pay a lot of attention to sun and rain, and checking the weather report is part of our daily routine. Most of us, though, aren’t checking our mobile devices to see what tomorrow’s soil conditions will be. Perhaps we should. It turns out that, for all of...
by Dominique Haller | May 1, 2018 | Magazine Article
Contemporary artists Helen Lee and Anne Kingsbury share an exploration of language as a central theme in their work. Similarly, both rely on glass as a primary material. Yet their work looks strikingly different. Helen Lee’s sharply intellectual hot glass pieces are...
by Angela Trudell Vasquez | May 1, 2018 | Magazine Article
I prefer crowds with voices echoingup and down the train cars, city bus gears singing stop hereexhaust spewing, laughs rolling to the page—boots, heels, sneakers step on and off the curb, voices flood ears become stolen dialogue in ink. I write in public to...
by Oscar Mireles | May 1, 2018 | Magazine Article
My mother is a social worker who works in a hospitalshe makes daily visits checks her chartsshares small talk with the patientsas she brightens up their rooms My mother is a social worker who works in a hospitalshe is always the first one at the scenejust...
by Mari Carlson | May 1, 2018 | Magazine Article
Michael Perry, a pig farmer and bestselling author of books about life in rural Wisconsin, decided to immerse himself in the essays of sixteenth-century politician-turned-philosopher Michel de Montaigne while recuperating from kidney stones. In Montaigne in Barn...
