by Ed Werstein | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
Incense and extinguished candlesScent my small-town Saturday night.Post-benediction, our priest returns to the rectory.Stained-glass filters church light into the dusk.A mourning dove signals daylight’s departure. We wait at the corner storefor the truck from the...
by Karla Huston | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
I’m one of those readers who start at the beginning of a volume of poems. I don’t page through, nor do I read the end of the book first. While reading Sarah Sadie’s new collection of poems, however, I found myself drawn to the narrative that scrolls across the bottom...
by Michael Kriesel | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
Milwaukee poet Mark Zimmermann’s first full-length poetry collection, Impersonations, dazzles with a gallery of pithy portraits written in a novel form. Take, for instance, “Osama bin Laden.” Islam is all.Man is madein Islam. And as manis old as sand, soIslam is...
by Ronnie Hess | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
In a political season rife with hyperbole, posturing, half-truths, intolerance, and worse, author and UW–Madison Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication Jack Mitchell reminds us that there is a media outlet where intelligent debate and public discussion are...
by Marc Seals | Nov 4, 2016 | Magazine Article
A bit more than ten years ago, I packed up my belongings and moved from Florida to the beautiful hills of Baraboo to take a job as a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Baraboo/Sauk County. In my decade as a Cheesehead (which I consider a term of...
by Jason Smith | Nov 3, 2016 | Magazine Article
In an era marked by hyperpartisan political discourse and obsessive coverage of the personalities of the moment, it’s good to know that Wisconsinites have an objective public media resource in WisconsinEye. For almost ten years, WisconsinEye has been providing...
