by Sheila Hanrahan | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Carter Conway presses the tip of his index finger against the point of his pencil. He lifts his desk lid to check his other pencils. “Fifth graders,” he says sharply, like a teacher. “I hear chattering in this classroom. Too much chattering.”...
by Allison Slavick | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
No one expected the water to be warm enough to swim in, and they hadn’t brought suits or towels. She’d not been in a pool for years, not once since Ben died, and even longer since she’d gone swimming in a lake. Such a fragrant lake, she thought....
by Marysa LaRowe | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
The summer Pastor Frank Mueller lost his mind, it rained so hard and so quickly in the town of Ryeford, Illinois that the waters of the marsh spilled into our basements and flooded Gary Avenue from North High all the way to the tracks. The foundation of the...
by Allison Slavick, Jessi Peterson, John Lehman, Kathleen Dale, Kathryn Gahl, Marysa LaRowe, Michael Kriesel | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
Wisconsin People & Ideas editor Jason A. Smith and literary editor John Lehman host an evening of the best poetry and fiction by up-and-coming Wisconsin writers at the Wisconsin People & Ideas/Wisconsin Book Festival Short Story and Poetry Contest reading...
