by John Lehman | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Since the beginning of time it seems poets have been preoccupied with birds. Wordsworth’s cuckoo and Keats’ nightingale come immediately to mind. As does Wallace Stevens’ blackbird (and the thirteen ways of looking at it). At first look I thought I...
by Michael Kriesel | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Kitchen necromancer, mom unburiesthe washer each week from its shallow graveof crochet magazines, Wonder Bread bagsof phone bills, coupons clipped and saved towardssome unexpired future where Point Beer doesn’t trump groceries. She even saved the washer box....
by Kathleen Dale | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
At seventy, the final thing she wantedto learn was to dive: to tuck her chin to her chest, betweenher outstretched arms and to fall headfirst toward the bottom she had bothfeared and yearned for since she had first seen water—the still pooluntouched, unrippled, heavy...
by Jessi Peterson | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
White clapboard worn to silver sitsstraddling the crest of a dark wave of soil, sailing a froth of sand atop the dark, implacable earth.Below us in the trough, hidden now by the sprayoff June’s green bowsprit runs the river, the current towards which we are...
by Bruce Dethlefsen | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Bruce Dethlefsen, a retired educator and public library director living in Westfield, began his two-year term as Wisconsin Poet Laureate at the beginning of 2011. Author of two poetry chapbooks, Dethlefsen was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and served for years...
