by Max Garland | Apr 7, 2020 | Magazine Article
In a dream I saw a table where all the elements fell into place …Dmitri Mendeleev You think the elements know the differencebetween the inanimateand us? And what is the difference, really,between a rock and the hard placethe human heart becomes, at times? Does...
by Margaret Rozga | Apr 7, 2020 | Magazine Article
See through these words, colors,movements, measures See firstgreen shoot, see roots taking hold and up at the source, seefissure in the ground, seeclear cold water, a spring See trunk, branch, twig,flowering of leaf or budof needle, see, even if you can’t See how...
by Nickolas Butler | Apr 1, 2020 | Magazine Article
From his kitchen window, Nathaniel Foxx counted six bulldozers in the neighboring cornfield. Or what was left of the cornfield. It began with a For Sale sign that Foxx drove by for months, but ultimately ignored. No one was going to buy eighty acres out here, he’d...
by Chrissy Widmayer | Apr 1, 2020 | Magazine Article
On a warm fall day in September 1973, James Batt watched as two plaques were affixed to the sandstone entryway of a small office building at 1922 University Avenue in Madison. The squat, cream-colored building was to be the first permanent home of the Wisconsin...
by Jason Smith | Oct 22, 2019 | Magazine Article
Ask a historian. Over the past year or so, this phrase has become my standard answer to questions raised about our so-called “unprecedented times.” Can you believe this or that bit of audacity by our president? What would happen if we went to war in the Middle...
