To the Quarry, Together

To the Quarry, Together

When poets and visual artists work together, they negotiate a shared language. In collaboration, they explore how their work, well, works together: both engage with form and shape, utilize symbolic thought, and explore metaphor of various kinds. Materials change and...
What Happens

What Happens

Asking peopleWhat happens to them          after they dieIs like asking babies in the wombWhat happens to them          After they’re born—How can they answerWhen they don’t even know          how to speak yet,When they don’t even knowTheir mother tongue          So...
Moments in Greece

Moments in Greece

the laser brush we watchedburn soot off the gownof an ancient kore the Delphic light, siftedthrough the nets of the godsto fall on us the molten remains, darkand bitter, at the bottom of eachmorning’s tiny cup how, beside the piled fallen stonesof my grandfather’s...
Inside the Creative Process

Inside the Creative Process

In this Academy Evening talk, Bruce Dethlefsen discusses his evolution as a poet and shares his wisdom for emerging writers. Dethlefsen, a former Wisconsin Poet Laureate, is the author of Small Talk (Little Eagle Press, 2014) and retired director of Montello Public...
The Mansion of Happiness, by Jon Loomis

The Mansion of Happiness, by Jon Loomis

I’d never encountered Jon Loomis’ poetry before. But I was delighted to make the acquaintance of both poet and poetry at the Foot of the Lake reading series in the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac. Winner of the 1997 FIELD prize in poetry, Loomis...