by Ann Zindler | Sep 29, 2020 | Videos
Ann Zindler reads from her award-winning story, “The Rescue,” from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest. Ann is a teacher of seventh-grade reading and writing. She has been a writer herself since the third grade, and is the third-place winner...
by Jessi Peterson | Sep 24, 2020 | Videos
Jessi Peterson reads her award-winning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. Jessi Peterson lives in a cordwood cabin she built with husband Dan overlooking the Chippewa River in western Wisconsin. When not working as a children’s librarian, she...
by Jonathan Patz | Sep 23, 2020 | Videos
The first of three Wisconsin Academy Environmental Breakfast Series online presentations for fall 2020 features Dr. Jonathan Patz, John P. Holton chair of Health and the Environment and Director of the Global Health Institute at UW-Madison. Dr. Patz discusses how...
by Nicholas Gulig | Sep 17, 2020 | Videos
Poet Nicholas Gulig reads his award-winning work from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. Nicholas Gulig is a Thai-American poet from Wisconsin. The the first-place winner of the Wisconsin People & Ideas 2017 Poetry Contest, Gulig was educated in...
by Gwendolyn Rice | Sep 3, 2020 | Videos
Gwendolyn Rice reads her award-winning story, “Secret Recipe,” from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest. This Facebook Live reading series is part of the 150th anniversary celebration of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters...
by Michael Hopkins | Aug 27, 2020 | Videos
Michael Hopkins, the first-place winner of our 2018 Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest, reads his award-winning story, “Static.” Michael lives on a small farm in Neenah, Wisconsin, with his wife and their dog, cats, and chickens. His book and music criticism...
