by Christine Holm | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
I.It is 76 degrees with no chance of snow for decades.Some people don’t know what its like to live October through Marchwithout blue sky. So we don’t make ourselves any more of a mess, we talkabout about porcelain, bones of men who mine coal. We talk of alleluia,the...
by Jessi Peterson | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
We trudge through last year’s corn stubble in a wayward, straggling line,drunken with the hour and the cold. It’s April, 4 AM, the air metallic in our noses.We stoop low, clamber awkwardly into plywood boxes slouching in slush,six strangers crammed together on a rough...
by Lisa Vihos | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Poetry is not revolution, but a way of learning why it must come.–Adrienne Rich In the summer of 2015, I traveled to Salerno, Italy, for the inaugural conference of 100 Thousand Poets for Change (100TPC). Eighty poet-organizers came from across the globe—Egypt,...
by Jane Elder | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Anyone reading this magazine will likely agree that writing can help us envision and shape our future. Writing enables us to capture ideas, reflect on and improve them, and share them widely. The power of great writing is that it can be personal and universal at the...
by Jason Smith, Kimberly M. Blaeser | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
If poet Kimberly Blaeser had to use two words to describe her first year as Wisconsin Poet Laureate, they would be exhilarating and exhausting. Blaeser, who was appointed to a two-year term on January 7 last year, says her schedule has been filled with appearances...
