by Diane Bacha | May 1, 2017 | Magazine Article
Gerit Grimm and Gina Litherland are contemporary Wisconsin artists inspired by the imaginations of long ago. Though one works in clay and the other in oil, one in unglazed and earthy monotone and the other in lusciously lacquered color, both turn to folklore and...
by C. Kubasta, Mollie Oblinger | Apr 28, 2017 | Magazine Article
When poets and visual artists work together, they negotiate a shared language. In collaboration, they explore how their work, well, works together: both engage with form and shape, utilize symbolic thought, and explore metaphor of various kinds. Materials change and...
by B.J. Hollars | Apr 28, 2017 | Magazine Article
On a sunny autumn morning in 2011, I found myself facing a room full of African-American literature students at the University of Alabama. I’d recently completed my graduate work there, and had stayed on as an instructor in the English Department to teach composition,...
by Jane Elder | Apr 28, 2017 | Magazine Article
Early in my career my work involved frequent trips to Washington DC. Occasionally, my colleagues and I would carve out time to catch a play or concert at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Perched on the banks of the Potomac River and home to the National...
by I.S. Kallick | Apr 28, 2017 | Magazine Article
Will often dreamed of falling, but never flying. Sometimes a cable would slip, or a board would snap, or his foot would step on air to tread on mere surprise. Time and again he failed to wake until his dreaming body slammed into the ethereal street, emptying his...
by Antler — | Apr 27, 2017 | Magazine Article
Asking peopleWhat happens to them after they dieIs like asking babies in the wombWhat happens to them After they’re born—How can they answerWhen they don’t even know how to speak yet,When they don’t even knowTheir mother tongue So...
