by Sara Raab | Mar 17, 2016 | Magazine Article
by John Gurda | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Neighborhoods are quicksilver creations, constantly changing residents, borders, and even names. Take the neighborhoods of Milwaukee, for instance: one generation’s Sixth Ward is another’s Brewer’s Hill, a German enclave in one century becomes an African-American...
by Karla Huston | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Last Christmas, my husband gave us an Ancestry.com DNA test. I knew there was a lot of Norwegian in him. Little did I know that I had some of the Norse in my DNA, too. This might explain why I especially enjoyed Erik Richardson’s new collection of poems, a berserker...
by Jess Williard | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Make it specific.Make it Oregon, Wisconsin. The time doesn’t matter. And not because of that familiar trope, the middle-American town leftoutside of time (although this is true), but because you weren’t actually there,have never been,and I am going to place you there....
by Christine Holm | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
I.It is 76 degrees with no chance of snow for decades.Some people don’t know what its like to live October through Marchwithout blue sky. So we don’t make ourselves any more of a mess, we talkabout about porcelain, bones of men who mine coal. We talk of alleluia,the...
by Jessi Peterson | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
We trudge through last year’s corn stubble in a wayward, straggling line,drunken with the hour and the cold. It’s April, 4 AM, the air metallic in our noses.We stoop low, clamber awkwardly into plywood boxes slouching in slush,six strangers crammed together on a rough...
