by Bruce Dethlefsen | Mar 18, 2015 | Magazine Article
at nightmy mother bathed me in a white tubscrubbed me with white soaprubbed me in a white towelhugged and plugged meinto pajamas and the white sheets an act so kindso commonit barely even happened
by Marilyn Taylor | Mar 18, 2015 | Magazine Article
The children are back, the children are back— They’ve come to take refuge, exhale and unpack; The marriage has faltered, the job has gone bad, Come open the door for them, Mother and Dad. The city apartment is leaky and cold, The landlord lascivious, greedy and old—...
by Elizabeth Wyckoff, Kimberly M. Blaeser | Mar 18, 2015 | Magazine Article
The news that Kimberly Blaeser would be Wisconsin’s new Poet Laureate could not have arrived at a more fitting occasion. On a cold November evening at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, Blaeser had just finished reading aloud to a crowded (and very warm) room...
by Robin Chapman | Mar 16, 2015 | Magazine Article
Where do poems come from? Where do dreams come from, and artists’ ideas, and mathematical proofs, and inventors’ projects? The creative process has multiple sources, and often a protracted timeline, including times when it seems as if you’re doing nothing at all....
by Kimberly M. Blaeser | Jan 6, 2015 | Magazine Article
Muskrat—Wazhashk, small whiskered swimmer, you, a fluid arrow crossing waterways with the simple determination of one who has dived purple deep into mythic quest. Belittled or despised as water rat on land; hero of our Anishinaabeg people in animal tales, creation...
