by Tom Pamperin | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
When fire began to fall from the sky and the stars started going out one by one, Burnhardt’s car was in the shop for new brake pads, or maybe the muffler—he’d been through a lot of cars and it was hard to keep track sometimes—so he was stuck at home. He wanted to make...
by Christopher Chambers, Janice Wilberg, Nicholas Gulig, Tom Pamperin, Alecia Beymer, Richie Zaborowske, Jess Parker | Oct 24, 2022 | Videos
Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine presented a virtual reading on October 24 as part of the 2022 Wisconsin Book Festival. The winners of the 2022 Fiction & Poetry Contests read their winning entries. The event was hosted by interim editor, Christopher...
by Paula Schulz | Nov 2, 2021 | Magazine Article
To the age of hands and animals laying open the fields,is as far back as I know my family. From a languagethat is my heritage, from a language I cannot readis the marriage record in our family Heilige Schrift.When I hold it in my hands I hold generationsof ancestors....
by David Southward | Nov 2, 2021 | Magazine Article
quantum bits:the either/and/or particles of beinginstantly transmitted across space—attraction’s valences revealed onlywhen observed LGBTQIA+encryptions too deep to hack:the anywhere between M and F,the Mother Father God please quitasking what I am other thanestranged...
by Jennifer Fandel | Nov 2, 2021 | Magazine Article
When we turn the earthin our yard for garden,the last tenant’s burials emerge as bones.Let us say some wordsfor every creature that breathed its last, for the rabbits, birds,and squirrels, for the dogand the stray cat that came for mice and rest,when the dog was...
