by Mark Zimmermann | May 16, 2019 | Magazine Article
Spectral presences flit in and out of In Light, Always Light, Milwaukee poet Angela Trudell Vasquez’s first chapbook. Ghosts appear with purposeful messages, the voices of dead ancestors echo, and human remains float over a city. But In Light, Always Light is at the...
by Alexander Shashko | May 16, 2019 | Magazine Article
Southeastern Wisconsin is the western boundary of the “Rust Belt,” a phrase popularized by presidential candidate Walter Mondale in 1984 to describe a sizeable chunk of America that was—and still is—facing an uncertain post-industrial future. Highway 26 is arguably...
by Mark Zimmermann | May 16, 2019 | Magazine Article
—Hyogo-ken, June 1991 Because her hands driftedin a pantomime of flightrising and floatingin one sweeping arcunspooling the paperacross the spotless bladethat ran the length of the roll, because the paper risingalong with her handsabove the wooden counterwas...
by Steven Potter | May 14, 2019 | Magazine Article
From a hundred feet in the air, Moriah Rataczak inspects the fields of Gumz Farms in Central Wisconsin. Soaring through the sky like a hawk, she weaves back and forth, looking down over thousands of acres of mint, onions, potatoes, corn, and soybeans. It’s early...
by Mckenzie Halling | May 14, 2019 | Magazine Article
From the outside, Tricklebee Café at 4424 West North Avenue in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park looks like any other restaurant. An A-frame chalkboard outside announces the special of the day: winter grain stew with a side of Hasselback potatoes and a radish, apple, and...
