by Linda Ware | Mar 16, 2015 | Magazine Article
Years ago, a student asked me at orientation what qualities he would need to be successful in my Freshman English class. The question was odd but perhaps useful. I came up with three qualities. First was curiosity: a readiness to learn about things that haven’t...
by Kimberly M. Blaeser | Jan 6, 2015 | Magazine Article
Muskrat—Wazhashk, small whiskered swimmer, you, a fluid arrow crossing waterways with the simple determination of one who has dived purple deep into mythic quest. Belittled or despised as water rat on land; hero of our Anishinaabeg people in animal tales, creation...
by Kimberly M. Blaeser | Jan 6, 2015 | Magazine Article
Ricing moon when poling arms groan like autumn winds through white pine. Old rhythms find the hands bend and pound the rice, rice kernels falling falling onto wooden ribs canoe bottoms filling with memories— new mocassins dance the rice huffs of spirit wind lift and...
by Kimberly M. Blaeser | Jan 6, 2015 | Magazine Article
Why should it happen that the smallest zig-zagging black cricket one stick leg raised— a musician’s baton, holds and then releases the same song as my canoe paddle slicing into glass? Boundary Water’s evening lake still, mirroring like memory doubles you here and...
by Nickolas Butler | Dec 23, 2014 | Magazine Article
Drop my children off at another parent’s house To free up time to drive aimlessly, listening to FM radio, waiting for a song that I feel deeply Connected to, stopping in small towns to pump Gasoline, eager to make acquaintances with the Cashier, a woman who tells me...
by Aaron Fai | Dec 23, 2014 | Magazine Article
Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Boy and girl ride shiny new Fuji bicycles on a 2,000-mile trip from boy’s Wisconsin hometown out west in search of adventure and spiritual fulfillment. Brian Benson’s memoir, Going Somewhere: A Bicycle Journey Across America, embarks on...
