by Steve Fox, Michael Hopkins, Jeri McCormick, Mary Wehner | Oct 23, 2019 | Videos
Wisconsin People & Ideas, the Wisconsin Academy’s magazine of contemporary Wisconsin thought and culture, presents a Wisconsin Book Festival reading featuring the winners of the statewide 2019 Fiction & Poetry Contests, hosted by editor Jason A. Smith. Fiction...
by Michael Hopkins, Jenna Rindo, Thomas Erickson, Justine Jones, AnnaKay Kruger | Oct 12, 2018 | Videos
Wisconsin People & Ideas, the Wisconsin Academy’s magazine of contemporary Wisconsin thought and culture, presents a Wisconsin Book Festival reading featuring the winners of the 2018 Fiction & Poetry Contest hosted by editor Jason A. Smith. Fiction readings...
by Jason Smith, Georgia Ressmeyer, Hansa Kerman Pistotnik, Nicholas Gulig, Ann Zindler, Jeff Esterholm, Bob Wake | Nov 3, 2017 | Videos
Watch the Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading at the 2017 Wisconsin Book Festival, featuring some of Wisconsin’s best writers and poets. 2017 award-winning short story writers/readers are Bob Wake (Cambridge), Jeff Esterholm...
by Steve Tomasko | Nov 2, 2016 | Magazine Article
I came across a dead porcupine sitting on its bellylooking asleep—his only sign of injury a crookedand bloody nose—and thought perhaps I’d get a poemout of it—this corpse I nearly stumbled overin the dark cedar copse. But the world doesn’t always give you poemswhen...
by Jeri McCormick | Nov 2, 2016 | Magazine Article
My brother and I conjured a swamp of black water,filled it with saw-toothed specimens, upping the anteof our basement games. Any trek downstairs meant taking the treacherous route—the jumpfrom the fifth stair onto a small castaway table,followed by the precarious...
