by Jason Smith | Mar 1, 2013 | Magazine Article
When a group of Mineral Point artists and community members got together on a chilly autumn evening in 2004 to found Shake Rag Alley School for Arts and Crafts, they had no idea they were at the forefront of a movement called creative placemaking. A 2010 National...
by Erika Janik | Mar 1, 2013 | Magazine Article
Michael Perry is upset. The county highway commission wants to reconfigure the patch of road near his house, making it impossible for cars to climb the hill to his home in the winter. His neighbor Tom Hartwig, a feisty octogenarian with a “ye olde curiosity workshop”...
by Margaret Rozga | Feb 27, 2013 | Magazine Article
In addition to being a poet and a playwright, you are also a Civil Rights activist. How do your ideas from one realm influence another? The short and simple answer is probably that both activism and creative writing involve seeing, being aware beyond the obvious,...
by Michael Kriesel | Feb 27, 2013 | Magazine Article
Born in an Illinois barn, that two-headed calf became a coin Frank flipped through World War Two, judging heaven from a foxhole. “God loves evil… goodness too,” he testifies while pouring beer, half of him still watching one head blink a minute longer...
by Jason Smith, Max Garland | Feb 27, 2013 | Magazine Article
When Max Garland received word from Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission chair Cathryn Cofell that he was the new Wisconsin Poet Laureate, he was taking part in an almost stereotypical Wisconsin tradition. “It was a typically frigid winter night in Wisconsin, and I,...
