by Jason Smith, Max Garland | Feb 27, 2013 | Magazine Article
When Max Garland received word from Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission chair Cathryn Cofell that he was the new Wisconsin Poet Laureate, he was taking part in an almost stereotypical Wisconsin tradition. “It was a typically frigid winter night in Wisconsin, and I,...
by Max Garland | Jan 7, 2013 | Magazine Article
They come out of the 1940’s to be your parents. Their faces swim and settle into clarity. The crook of an arm. The fount of a breast. They come from the time before your life, before the things that fill your life. Before water sprang from the faucet. Before...
by Max Garland | Jan 7, 2013 | Magazine Article
It’s less lonely than it used to be, what with the forests stripped down to the minimum now, and the white lines painted on the Oakwood Mall lot and the cars parked like brothers, in order of their arrival, the sheen of the Lord upon them, however, the last as...
by Robert Russell | Nov 6, 2012 | Magazine Article
Only one night we watchedthe full moon remember the tops of the trees,spilling radium over an unused roadand the pond at the edge of the fieldwas full of silver and longing.The fireflies’ green light was too coolto be reflected in that restless water,on, then off, the...
by Jeanie Tomasko | Nov 6, 2012 | Magazine Article
Dear Milwaukee, Do you remember 1982? How your air was saying Yes, World Series, Robin Yount, how on every empty lot, kids were throwing perfect double-plays. How the whole town was sliding into a dream. How I was sliding into a bad dream and didn’t even know it. You...
