by Jim Stevens, Kimberly M. Blaeser | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
For years Jim Stevens and Kimberly Blaeser have promoted the exploration of poetry and creative writing among Native American peoples, fostering expression and examination of Native culture through the written word in formal and informal courses here in Wisconsin and...
by Gina LaLiberte | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Unsightly multi-colored algal blooms appeared earlier than usual on lakes across Wisconsin in the summer of 2012. Their premature arrival was induced in part by an exceptionally warm period in March when temperature records were set throughout the state. The...
by Katie Ginther, Liam Kane-Grade | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
For nearly a century, a General Motors assembly plant was the economic hub of Janesville, Wisconsin, employing some 7,000 workers at its peak of operation. During the sport utility vehicle boom of the 1990s, the plant shifted its base production to the large-size,...
by Phil Busse | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
When we first meet Henry Skrimshander, one of the charming-but-flawed characters in Chad Harbach’s debut novel, The Art of Fielding, he is a scrawny hayseed. A talented shortstop in South Dakota, Henry, like most teenage athletes, dreams about playing in the Major...
by Bob Wake | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
You have to admire a poetry chapbook whose self-contradicting opening line trumpets, “Now is not the time to begin …” The poem, “Digging in the Fat Box,” a kind of encomium to failed diets and body fat as symptoms of spiritual longing (“wanting / to be filled”), and...
