Wisconsin People & Ideas
As the colder weather brings sweetness to dark, leafy greens like kale and collards, we head into a season of gatherings. Fall celebrations lean into traditions carried by people everywhere to share the bounty and connect over a meal.
How a 1980s Horror Movie Put Hayward on the Map And Helped Forge the Future of Wisconsin Filmmaking
Elizabeth Hendricks' "Counting Crows" won First Place in the 2025 Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest. Illustrations by Sheila Drefahl
“Independent bookstores put their towns on the map. The shelves of a bookstore are a destination, and each purchase is a new journey. That’s the magic of a bookstore. It celebrates where it is while taking you anywhere you want to go.”
My grandmother is a newborn puppycurled up between hospital bed guardrails.The surgeon tried plumbing her arteries —she clawed her way off the table. Softwhite fuzz on wrinkled pink flesh,
Sometimes my mother tells me she does not know who I am anymoreand I get lost trying to explain where all this change is coming from
We knelt on the tile floor of the sunroomwith our backs to her. It was summer.We pressed our faces up close to the grateof the old metal fan and spoke.The fan sent everything we said back at us,
The Poor Farm Experiment is a rural outpost of artistic and intellectual activity, a spartan refuge, and an off-center incubator for creative exploration.
"The poems that floated within my father’s voice defined the home I needed when I was young in much the same way that Niedecker’s poems and legacy do for me today."
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Wisconsin Academy Offices
1922 University Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53726
Phone: 608.733.6633
James Watrous Gallery
3rd Floor, Overture Center for the Arts
201 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608.733.6633 x25