by Jessi Peterson | Sep 24, 2020 | Videos
Jessi Peterson reads her award-winning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. Jessi Peterson lives in a cordwood cabin she built with husband Dan overlooking the Chippewa River in western Wisconsin. When not working as a children’s librarian, she...
by Nicholas Gulig | Sep 17, 2020 | Videos
Poet Nicholas Gulig reads his award-winning work from the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. Nicholas Gulig is a Thai-American poet from Wisconsin. The the first-place winner of the Wisconsin People & Ideas 2017 Poetry Contest, Gulig was educated in...
by Karen Loeb | Aug 13, 2020 | Videos
Karen Loeb reads her award-winning poems from the Wisconsin People & Ideas poetry contests. Karen recently finished a two-year run May 2020 as Eau Claire’s Writer-in-Residence. Retired from teaching creative writing at UW-EC, she writes poetry and fiction at home...
by Kathleen Dale | Jul 16, 2020 | Videos
Kathleen Dale shares a reading of her award-winning poetry from a number of Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contests. Kathleen was born in Kansas, though she has lived on the shore of Lake Michigan for many years. She and her husband have three grown daughters and...
by Lisa Vihos | Jun 25, 2020 | Videos
Lisa Vihos reads a few poems, including her award-winning work, “Lesson at the Checkpoint,” from the 2015 Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters is celebrating our 150th anniversary and the latest issue...
