At the Birth of a Third Daughter, on the Eve of World War,

by Ingrid Andersson | Mar 8, 2021 | Magazine Article

At the birth of a third daughter, on the eve of world war,my grandfather refused to look at heror come in from the barn.In that old country, deepwithin my newborn mother,in my invisible ovary home,I must have learnedthat hope is complicated.Did my someday-son learn it...

Dasha Kelly Hamilton: Agent for Creative Change

by Joey Grihalva | Mar 4, 2021 | Magazine Article

Dasha Kelly Hamilton is on a mission. She is leading a poetry workshop in Port Louis, the capital city of Mauritius, a tropical island about 1,200 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa. Sunlight pours into a narrow room as a group of young people listen to Dasha...

Gillian Nevers: Fiction & Poetry winners' live reading series

by Gillian Nevers | Oct 29, 2020 | Videos

Gillian Nevers reads her award-winning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. This Facebook Live reading series is part of the 150th anniversary celebration of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters and our Wisconsin People &...

Christie Taylor: Fiction & poetry contest live winners' reading

by Christie Taylor | Oct 15, 2020 | Videos

Christie Taylor reads her award-winning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. Christie Taylor (2013 poetry contest winner, 2010 poetry contest runner-up) is a producer and science communicator for the public radio show Science Friday, where on...

Austin Smith: Fiction & Poetry winners' live reading series

by Austin Smith | Oct 8, 2020 | Videos

Austin Smith reads his award-winning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. Austin Smith grew up on a family dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. His poems have been widely published, and he has published three poetry chapbooks: In the Silence of...