Wisconsin People & Ideas
About the time I started thinking about the editor’s note for this issue, my wife and I went up north for a weekend with my cousin and her husband who have a place in Sawyer County, near Exeland where my grandparents lived during Prohibition.
Climate change is real. That’s not news to elders in Wisconsin’s Native American communities. They see it, they feel it, and they are taking action to deal with it.
In her debut story collection Milk Blood Heat, Dantiel W. Moniz handles the concept of human connection as if it were a jewel, inspecting its every facet, glint, and shadow.
Wisconsin poet Maryann Hurtt’s groundbreaking new book, Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices, gives poetic voice to hard truths about Oklahoma’s Tar Creek environmental disaster.
The narrator of Jackie Polzin’s memorable first novel, “Brood,” pays exquisite attention to the seemingly ordinary world around her.
More than two billion years of Earth history, and thousands of years of human history, have shaped the physical landscape in Wisconsin and, in turn, influences how we live with the land. In The Geography of Wisconsin, written by John A.
My fav event as harvest season approachesis the rough seed that escaped the plots.
If there’s a cornfield adjacent to another bedof vegetables, you can count on imperfection,
Howl somethingyou want heard,
guaranteedyou’ll be hunted.
Howl somethingsweet and it won’tmatter either.
Someone will starta murder club builtfor your friends,
In the sediment, years of beaten red granite, submissive to currentThe broken headlight lies.(The old woman, down off Highway 164, could tell youIt comes from a 20th-centuryGerman hatchback.
I never knew why you waxed gravestones.I remember you young with pigtails.
Then it started raining in the middle of AugustAnd everything that could scream was steaming.The wax melts, and looks like tears.
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