by Elizabeth Wyckoff, Karla Huston | Feb 2, 2017 | Magazine Article
On a late November afternoon at the Hoffman Memory Care Resource Center in Kaukauna, Karla Huston witnessed the power of poetry at work. She was leading her first program at a Memory Café—a gathering space for people experiencing memory loss—and trying to figure out...
by Bruce Dethlefsen | Dec 7, 2016 | Magazine Article
a cold wet compress to her foreheada brisk rub and warm breath on her pale little handsa shiver her eyes blink twice then openspring comes around slowly you gave your mom and mequite a scare there kiddohere feel my heartit’s good to have you back
by Georgia Ressmeyer | Nov 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
Yesterday morning I’m pretty sure it was yesterdayI started walking along the beach toward someone whowould meet me at my destination. Where it was orwho it was I can’t remember off the top of my head. I walked that way a hundred times before and knewmy feet would...
by Cynthia Belmont | Nov 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
Cancer is not a ringing bell,a queen of spades. Cancer is notyour mother’s hand-me-down, strung likepearls along the lymph nodes,smoky quartz clustered in the caving lung,opals singing their blues in the neurons,a solitaire promise kept by the breast,a little story of...
by Richard Roe | Nov 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
I’m sitting on a park bench noodling linesfrom a Billy Stayhorn song, Somethingto Live For, “watching the noon crowds,”when a woman bumps me with her hip.“How are you,” she asks, and I chokeon a high note, “Marilyn.” She smilesthe same shy smile she offered at an...
