by Kathleen Dale | Jun 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
As the young, slight, male manicuristdeftly massages my hand, we turn our headsin opposite directions as if such pleasurebetween strangers were unseemly in light of everyday suffering. But who am Ito believe that broken things might noteven now be making their way...
by Sean Avery | Jun 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
Prayer (Song) for Magic [Introduction]17-year-old Trayvon Martin fatally shot by 28-year-old George Zimmerman17-year-old Jordan Davis fatally shot by 45-year-old Michael Dunn18-year-old Michael Brown fatally shot by 28-year-old police officer Darren Wilson12-year-old...
by Jason Smith | Apr 1, 2015 | Magazine Article
When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker put forth his budget for the 2015–17 biennium, it arrived with some dramatic changes to the mission of the University of Wisconsin System. Particularly conspicuous were deletions to language central to the Wisconsin Idea, the...
by Bruce Dethlefsen | Mar 18, 2015 | Magazine Article
at nightmy mother bathed me in a white tubscrubbed me with white soaprubbed me in a white towelhugged and plugged meinto pajamas and the white sheets an act so kindso commonit barely even happened
by Paul Lukas, Heather McCabe | Mar 18, 2015 | Magazine Article
It’s a crisp autumn day in the small town of Sparta, Wisconsin, and Darren Schauf is showing off the tools of his trade: around six hundred very large fiberglass molds strewn across a five-acre field. Most of the fiberglass molds are oversized versions of recognizable...