Sheltering with Poems: Community & Connection During COVID

by Jason Smith | Aug 2, 2021 | Magazine Article

For those of us who have been taking shelter among words during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new collection of Wisconsin poetry created just for the occasion has arrived. Published by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and Middleton-based Bent Paddle Press, Sheltering with...

Of Many Wings

by Rachel Durfee | Jul 28, 2021 | Magazine Article

Thermos

by Guy Thorvaldsen | Jul 27, 2021 | Magazine Article

There’s something to be saidabout standing on the center lineof a bustling four-lane road,cars skimming by in front and behind meas I watch my stainless steel thermosbumble along toward the opposite curblike a rolling pin or pipe bomb.I admire its resilience—ten years...

Village Post Office

by Melaney Poli | Jul 27, 2021 | Magazine Article

There’s a truck double-parked in the only parking spot.The guy at the counter owns a construction business, is telling the clerk all the things he’s built. “That bank in EauClaire? I built that one, too. …” After a few more buildings he leaves. I’m the only customer...

In Which Woolly Mammoths Save the World, Starting with Siberia, Because Permafrost is Melt and Carbon is Release

by Jill Madden Melchoir | Jul 27, 2021 | Magazine Article

First, find the reliquary:Collect the bones of the mammoth,regurgitated onto the shoreby the agitate cycle of thawing permafrost,rinse clean by the frigid lake’s lapping,swelled in a jumble of reedson the pebbled shore. Second, bioethics and cloning:Something,...