by Rebecca M. Zornow | Jul 31, 2024 | Magazine Article
Finding the Bones, central Wisconsin author Nikki Kallio’s debut short story collection, opens with a geography lesson. The short story follows a young girl who knows of Earth only through the faded atlases and books stored on her generation ship, a space vessel that...
by Pam Anderson | Jul 31, 2024 | Magazine Article
Regardless of subject matter, a novel is always about something else, and Dry Land by B. Pladek is no exception. The novel is billed as a book about a conservationist from Wisconsin with a remarkable—yes, magical—gift. A simple touch from the main character (Rand...
by Shawn Brommer | Jul 31, 2024 | Magazine Article
Death’s Door, the dangerous strait linking Lake Michigan and Green Bay, is the protagonist and tells its story in first-person verse in this recent publication from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Innovatively told by Wisconsin author Barbara Joose, these...
by William Stobb | Jul 31, 2024 | Magazine Article
ache index high at the marsh today one caddisfly larva in its jeweled casedrowns stop all the clocks sinks millennia into sedimentreminds me of tortured and hanged girl dumped in Uchter Moorsixteen for so long then uncovered reconstructed so we knowa sister daughter...
by Holly Hilliard | Jul 31, 2024 | Magazine Article
It was the first day of seed collecting at Weber Marsh, and Andy was at the barn early to intercept any overeager volunteers. He had already crossed this mid-September day off his desk calendar; only eight more Saturdays to go, after this one. If an early snowfall...
by Jody Clowes | Jul 31, 2024 | Magazine Article
In 2018, Madison artists Brenda Baker and Bird Ross set out to see if they could do their part to bring more financial equity to women visual artists right here at home. Their message that artists bring integrity, vitality, diversity, and joy to this community and...
