by Sara Raab | Oct 28, 2021 | Videos
Wisconsin People & Ideas, the Wisconsin Academy’s magazine of contemporary Wisconsin thought and culture, presents a Wisconsin Book Festival reading featuring the winners of the statewide 2020 Fiction & Poetry Contests, hosted by editor Jason A. Smith. Before...
by Jennifer Fandel | Oct 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
Your dead father dogs youlike the white mutt that roams along the fishing holes and walksthe edge of gravel roads, sometimes at a trot, most times slow,but with purpose, muscle and sinew protecting old bones. The fatherin silence with pipe clenched between his teeth...
by Allison Uselman | Oct 28, 2021 | Magazine Article
It was not a hick town but rather a prairie town, one where there was often nothing for young people to do but drive around and attempt to reckon with the vastness of the land. The prairies, for example, made Violet Wells feel small. The grasses were high and pale,...
by Guy Thorvaldsen | Jul 27, 2021 | Magazine Article
There’s something to be saidabout standing on the center lineof a bustling four-lane road,cars skimming by in front and behind meas I watch my stainless steel thermosbumble along toward the opposite curblike a rolling pin or pipe bomb.I admire its resilience—ten years...
by Melaney Poli | Jul 27, 2021 | Magazine Article
There’s a truck double-parked in the only parking spot.The guy at the counter owns a construction business, is telling the clerk all the things he’s built. “That bank in EauClaire? I built that one, too. …” After a few more buildings he leaves. I’m the only customer...
