by Jesse Brookstein | Jul 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
You don’t have to be a beverage industry expert to know beer is big business, and you don’t have to be a historian to know Wisconsin is home to one of the country’s proudest beer brewing cultures. And while Wisconsin is often associated with legendary German names...
by Erika Monroe-Kane | Jul 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
A key focus of mine over the past year has been outreach and relationship building across Wisconsin. As I have been meeting people around the state, I have had many conversations about what matters to them and what they value in the Academy. I repeatedly hear concerns...
by Christopher Chambers | Jul 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
Summertime, according to Gershwin, the living is easy, and summer in Wisconsin is indeed a golden time, a brief season that evokes leisure, cold beer, boats, lakes, and beaches, all of which we touch on in this, our summer issue. Our cover story celebrates the current...
by Katrin Talbot | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
Recently, The New York Times published an opinion piece with the slightly misleading title “Poetry Died 100 Years Ago This Month,” ruffling the feathers of many poets and their readers. As if in reply, Max Garland, a former Poet Laureate of Wisconsin, has produced a...
by Jean Feraca | Mar 31, 2023 | Magazine Article
The cover of this astonishing poetry collection features a woman rising out of a primordial gloom, her arms clawing the cracked walls of an ancient mikvah, the Jewish symbol of purification. Hanging in the Doge’s palace in Venice is another image that could well have...
