by Karla Huston | May 29, 2020 | Magazine Article
In Copper Yearning, her first book since the 2007 publication of Apprenticed to Justice (Salt Publishing), Kimberly Blaeser draws heavily from the poet’s toolbox—assonance, consonance, rhythm, color, and music—to make her poems sing across pages filled with light and...
by Michael Hopkins | May 28, 2020 | Magazine Article
Dr. Merton gave Shelby Aronowitz bad news. The pain in her knee was osteosarcoma. They would have to amputate. “Can’t they replace it?” Shelby’s mother said. “Just the knee?” “No,” Dr. Merton said. “We have to remove bone too far above and below the joint.” He...
by Nikki Kallio | May 28, 2020 | Magazine Article
Kristin searched for a sound in the still air of the historic inn’s guest room, holding up a hand for silence while Mark dropped the equipment on a rosy bedspread. Muted light filtered through warped glass, long shadows reaching over papered walls. Coming here at...
by Justin Kern | May 28, 2020 | Magazine Article
Eight times a year the Racine Astronomical Society invites the public to view the skies through two intricate telescopes housed at the Modine-Benstead Observatory. Tucked amid rolling cornfields and tidy McMansions in rural Yorkville, the twin silos of the whitewashed...
by Jody Clowes, Martha Glowacki | Apr 13, 2020 | Magazine Article
Building a specimen collection of plant, animal, and mineral resources was a matter of scientific interest and civic pride for the Wisconsin Academy’s 19th-century founders. Such specimens were more than curiosities: they were physical documents of the region’s...
