Wisconsin People & Ideas

In Copper Yearning, poet Kimberly Blaeser fills the pages with light, lore, and love.

The voices were never voices, but more like the memory of sound—an echo off cavernous, sweating walls.

Building a specimen collection of plant, animal, and mineral resources was a matter of scientific interest and civic pride for the Wisconsin Academy’s 19th-century founders.

Holly Dolliver’s interest in nature began at a young age. After noticing the stinky algal blooms in Dunns Lake on her family’s farm, she wanted to learn more about why the blooms appeared—and what she could do to stop them.