by Jason Smith | Oct 11, 2018 | Magazine Article
My wife once asked me why we print photo essays in the magazine. “Photos are everywhere online and everyone has a camera these days,” she said. “So, why bother?” While she was playing devil’s advocate (Liz knows I love photography), she had a point. According to the...
by Mark Zimmermann | Aug 13, 2018 | Magazine Article
Readers familiar with Anishinaabe poet Denise Sweet’s work must be well aware of how engaged and perceptive she is as an interpreter of what’s going on in the world, how things happen, and why they matter. A professor emerita of Humanistic Studies, Creative Writing,...
by Shelby Anderson | Aug 13, 2018 | Magazine Article
Michael Edmonds’s new book, Taking Flight: A History of Birds and People in the Heart of America, provides an enlightening and well-researched account of our always-evolving relationship with birds. Edmonds is director of programs and outreach at the Wisconsin...
by Thomas Erickson | Aug 2, 2018 | Magazine Article
What kind of times are these, whento talk about trees is almost a crimebecause it implies silence about so many horrors?—Bertolt Brecht, “To Those Born Later” My sons told me that November was comingbut I didn’t believe them. There’s no wayit will ever be November, I...
by Michael Hopkins | Aug 2, 2018 | Magazine Article
I got stung. On my ankle, I saw three bees, and could feel them right through my sock. I brushed them off, escaped from our vegetable garden where I was weeding, and ran into the house. “Damn it,” I said to Betty, my wife, who was chopping carrots, “I got stung.”...
