by Cynthia Belmont | Nov 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
Cancer is not a ringing bell,a queen of spades. Cancer is notyour mother’s hand-me-down, strung likepearls along the lymph nodes,smoky quartz clustered in the caving lung,opals singing their blues in the neurons,a solitaire promise kept by the breast,a little story of...
by Richard Roe | Nov 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
I’m sitting on a park bench noodling linesfrom a Billy Stayhorn song, Somethingto Live For, “watching the noon crowds,”when a woman bumps me with her hip.“How are you,” she asks, and I chokeon a high note, “Marilyn.” She smilesthe same shy smile she offered at an...
by Peter Burzynski | Nov 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
Mom said, Kiss her hand.I didn’t want to kiss my teacher;especially not on the bulginggreen vein of her thin hands.I think she had red hair. She waskind. She sent a memo home:the boys shouldn’t drop their pantsall the way when using the urinal. “Fathersteach zippers...
by Emmett Mottl | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
Photographer and Milwaukee native Jarob Ortiz was recently selected as the new photographer for the National Park Service’s Heritage Documentation Program, where he will explore the architectural history of the country. Ortiz, who secured the position after a long,...
by Howie Magner | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
Theater professor Anne Basting has been named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, making her the first University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty member to earn the esteemed John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s highest honor and the sixth person to earn a fellowship...
by Lynne Harper | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
The search for the knowable has led to remarkable discovery and innovation in the sciences. At the same time, this unrelenting quest for knowledge has also fostered in many of us a sense of discomfort with ambiguity—and a detachment from our often-messy internal and...
