by Hansa Kerman Pistotnik | Jun 18, 2020 | Videos
Hansa Kerman Pistotnik reads “Salvation Doesn’t Come, her prizewinning poem from the 2017 Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest, along with a few others. Hansa is a poet and photographer whose black-and-white Hancock High, Lake Shore Drive was printed in the...
by Sean Avery | Jun 11, 2020 | Videos
In a pre-recorded presentation, poet Sean Avery shares a reading of their work, including the powerful poem, “Prayer (Song) for Magic,” which won second place in the 2015 Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. Sean is a rapper, poet and teaching artist based in...
by Karen Loeb | May 29, 2020 | Magazine Article
By age three everything’s in place.There’s a closet for storing languagewith all the nouns and verbs on hooks and hangersknowing their places, who comes firstand who must stay back, how to make plurals,with an ‘s’ we romancers and English...
by Thomas Davis | May 29, 2020 | Magazine Article
I rummaged around in words all day,changing this one, discarding that one,snipping, pruning, and adding, a gardenerworking in a field of meaning flowers. Now, at this hour before dawn,sitting in silence while first light smudges horizons,I wonder where all the...
by Karla Huston | May 29, 2020 | Magazine Article
In Copper Yearning, her first book since the 2007 publication of Apprenticed to Justice (Salt Publishing), Kimberly Blaeser draws heavily from the poet’s toolbox—assonance, consonance, rhythm, color, and music—to make her poems sing across pages filled with light and...
