by B.J. Hollars | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
We strike out for Together Farms one evening in mid-May. The minivan is packed tight: every bench and bucket seat claimed by one family member or another. My father sits shotgun, my mom is in the back, with my wife and our three children in the remaining seats. We are...
by Erika Monroe-Kane | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
Recently, I have been hearing a lot about resilience, the invaluable quality that is essential to maintaining daily life during times of crisis and which is also the underpinning of great achievements. While I agree that resilience is highly valuable, I think there is...
by Christopher Chambers | Aug 3, 2022 | Magazine Article
Summer means different things in different places. In Wisconsin, where the winters are longer and less hospitable, summers are celebrated with more intensity and appreciation than in southern climes. Summer here is a fugitive time, a time to seize the days and get...
by Mark Zimmermann | Feb 25, 2022 | Magazine Article
Early in Richard Merelman’s poetry collection A Door Opens, a teenage boy appears surrounded by “A sea of images, language, / sensation” exploring sex and violence. And since this takes place in mid-20th century America, it’s no surprise that Casablanca, Playboy, Lady...
by Angela Trudell Vasquez | Feb 25, 2022 | Magazine Article
Margaret Rozga’s latest collection consists of poems from three previous collections—200 Nights and One Day, Justice Freedom Herbs, Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems—as well as newer poems, some of which she wrote during the pandemic. Published by UW-Stevens...
