by Emmett Mottl | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
Photographer and Milwaukee native Jarob Ortiz was recently selected as the new photographer for the National Park Service’s Heritage Documentation Program, where he will explore the architectural history of the country. Ortiz, who secured the position after a long,...
by Howie Magner | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
Theater professor Anne Basting has been named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, making her the first University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty member to earn the esteemed John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s highest honor and the sixth person to earn a fellowship...
by Ed Werstein | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
Incense and extinguished candlesScent my small-town Saturday night.Post-benediction, our priest returns to the rectory.Stained-glass filters church light into the dusk.A mourning dove signals daylight’s departure. We wait at the corner storefor the truck from the...
by Karla Huston | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
I’m one of those readers who start at the beginning of a volume of poems. I don’t page through, nor do I read the end of the book first. While reading Sarah Sadie’s new collection of poems, however, I found myself drawn to the narrative that scrolls across the bottom...
by Michael Kriesel | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
Milwaukee poet Mark Zimmermann’s first full-length poetry collection, Impersonations, dazzles with a gallery of pithy portraits written in a novel form. Take, for instance, “Osama bin Laden.” Islam is all.Man is madein Islam. And as manis old as sand, soIslam is...
