by Kathryn Gahl | Oct 17, 2018 | Magazine Article
Act I Put me where I am usefuljust beneath the topsoilhalf-inch down of warmthand wet loam in my handspitch me a shovel or rakelet me get up when the sunsplits land from sky and blazes There’s work to be done Act II Tell me to rest when darkness fallsthough I keep...
by Anna Hahm | Oct 17, 2018 | Magazine Article
My horoscope saidToday is a ten. You’re driving; I’m ridingIn a Cadillac convertibleThrough the pouring rain,Soaked to the skin, and more. Lightening stitches through clouds,Flashing like a mirror ball.We got Benny Goodman on the radioUntil the station hissesAnd fades...
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 Mark Zimmermann | Aug 13, 2018 | Magazine Article
Readers familiar with Anishinaabe poet Denise Sweet’s work must be well aware of how engaged and perceptive she is as an interpreter of what’s going on in the world, how things happen, and why they matter. A professor emerita of Humanistic Studies, Creative Writing,...
by Justine Jones | Aug 2, 2018 | Magazine Article
There was a boy who was not yet a man who spent a summer graftingbuds onto peach branches. It was hot; it was the bay shore ofMaryland and 1974. He carried a small knife and used it with hishands, used it to open with his hands. With each slit on the already-tree he...
