by Nancy Bauer-King | Aug 2, 2016 | Magazine Article
In dim lightGrandma sits at her tableshaving fat and fleshfrom the pig’s skullswick swick swickher knife slicesthrough bristled skinpast cartilage and brain she’ll press meat intoa jellied loaf. The body hacksawed in halfcut gristle, bone and bloodlies cold and...
by Christine Holm | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
I.It is 76 degrees with no chance of snow for decades.Some people don’t know what its like to live October through Marchwithout blue sky. So we don’t make ourselves any more of a mess, we talkabout about porcelain, bones of men who mine coal. We talk of alleluia,the...
by Jessi Peterson | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
We trudge through last year’s corn stubble in a wayward, straggling line,drunken with the hour and the cold. It’s April, 4 AM, the air metallic in our noses.We stoop low, clamber awkwardly into plywood boxes slouching in slush,six strangers crammed together on a rough...
by Nikki Kallio, Kathryn Gahl, Kathleen Dale, Lisa Vihos | Oct 23, 2015 | Videos
Every year Wisconsin People & Ideas, the Wisconsin Academy’s quarterly magazine of Wisconsin thought and culture, hosts fiction and poetry contests that garners hundreds of submissions from across the state. In addition to securing cash prizes of up to $500...
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...
