by Margaret Rozga | Feb 25, 2022 | Magazine Article
After writing Studying Wisconsin, a biography of Increase Lapham co-authored with Paul Hayes, Martha Bergland was looking for another Wisconsin scientist whose life and work deserved more attention. She learned of Thure Kumlien in a poem by Lorine Niedecker, who, like...
by Judith Harway | Feb 25, 2022 | Magazine Article
The Haskell Free Library straddles the U. S. / Canadian border between Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont. The border is marked by a line of black tape on the floor of the reading room. Because people from countries like Iran studying in the U. S. on...
by Mark Knickelbine | Feb 25, 2022 | Magazine Article
My dear friendyou are wrong to saythere are only stories. Stories need bodies—larynx, tongue and teethhands to scratch them down tympany and thalamuseyes to readand bundles of neurons in the heart and gut. Stories need bodies to devise thembodies to receive themand...
by Moisés Villavicencio Barras | Feb 25, 2022 | Magazine Article
My father keeps samara seedssafe insidesmall matchboxes. He holds his handout to me,a seed in his bark-like palm. This seed has wingslike a dragonfly.I’ve had it for so many yearsthat I don’t knowif she will want to see the light. I touch one of her wingsand it...
by Katie Chiquette | Feb 25, 2022 | Magazine Article
Sometimes the red symbolon a white backgroundis a swastika on a Sheboygan garage in 2017 sometimes it is the Kimberly High School “K”on the KHS_white_club Instagram accountposted on the first day of Black History Month in 2021 terror remains, alive today: it did not...
