by Christopher Chambers | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
About the time I started thinking about the editor’s note for this issue, my wife and I went up north for a weekend with my cousin and her husband who have a place in Sawyer County, near Exeland where my grandparents lived during Prohibition. Family lore has it that...
by Grant McGinnis | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
Climate change is real. That’s not news to elders in Wisconsin’s Native American communities. They see it, they feel it, and they are taking action to deal with it. “Our elders have watched climate change on their tribal lands from when they were young. They have seen...
by Bella Bravo | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
In her debut story collection Milk Blood Heat, Dantiel W. Moniz handles the concept of human connection as if it were a jewel, inspecting its every facet, glint, and shadow. Milk, blood, and heat are all conduits by which we share a part of ourselves with others....
by Sylvia Cavanaugh | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
Wisconsin poet Maryann Hurtt’s groundbreaking new book, Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices, gives poetic voice to hard truths about Oklahoma’s Tar Creek environmental disaster, truths researched and supported with historical documents and interviews. Lead and...
by Marja Mills | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
The narrator of Jackie Polzin’s memorable first novel, “Brood,” pays exquisite attention to the seemingly ordinary world around her. Her husband, an academic, builds a chicken coop behind their home in a deteriorating neighborhood of North Minneapolis. She examines...
