by Austin Smith | Oct 8, 2020 | Videos
Austin Smith reads his award-winning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. Austin Smith grew up on a family dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. His poems have been widely published, and he has published three poetry chapbooks: In the Silence of...
by Cathryn Cofell | Oct 1, 2020 | Videos
Cathryn Cofell reads her award-winning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. Cathryn Cofell is a tireless advocate for the arts and poet with six chapbooks and two full-length collections, including Stick Figure with Skirt, which won the 2019...
by Kathryn Gahl | Sep 29, 2020 | Magazine Article
My sister doesn’t do sad.She tried it on a few times, different styles, different sizes— nothing quite fit. Either too loudor too dark, too tight or too baggy, she’d say. But I think it was the silence of sadness she couldn’t size up. See, she’s a musician and...
by Susan Martell Huebner | Sep 29, 2020 | Magazine Article
It was that summer19 years old I lived alonefevered with independenceefficiency apartment on Summit Avenuescratch cushions pull-out couchGoodwill dishes my boyfriend and Idrank liquor from jelly glasses poundedthe thin mattress even flatter ...
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...
