by Lisa Vihos | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Poetry is not revolution, but a way of learning why it must come.–Adrienne Rich In the summer of 2015, I traveled to Salerno, Italy, for the inaugural conference of 100 Thousand Poets for Change (100TPC). Eighty poet-organizers came from across the globe—Egypt,...
by Jacob Turner | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Does your pet like music? The answer is: Yes. But not your music. Don’t worry. It’s not personal. Our companion animals, domesticated thousands of years ago, are descended from primarily nocturnal predators. Over millions of years they developed an acute sense of...
by Jacob Turner | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
The Milwaukee Public Museum recently unveiled some big changes to their beloved Streets of Old Milwaukee exhibit, integrating 21st century digital technology to enhance this slice of turn-of-the-century Milwaukee life. But, never fear: Granny, cobblestones, and the...
by Krista Eastman | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Marianne Fairbanks is bringing decades of experience with dyes, fibers, and design to the development of a technology she’s been dreaming of for years: solar textile. “I found myself on a campus full of brilliant people of all disciplines so I just Googled ‘solar...
by Jane Elder | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Anyone reading this magazine will likely agree that writing can help us envision and shape our future. Writing enables us to capture ideas, reflect on and improve them, and share them widely. The power of great writing is that it can be personal and universal at the...
by Jason Smith, Kimberly M. Blaeser | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
If poet Kimberly Blaeser had to use two words to describe her first year as Wisconsin Poet Laureate, they would be exhilarating and exhausting. Blaeser, who was appointed to a two-year term on January 7 last year, says her schedule has been filled with appearances...
