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Wisconsin People & Ideas

Mike Taylor with a basketball

From the playgrounds and parks of Milwaukee, Mike Taylor became an international basketball player known by insiders for his brilliance on the court.

The main entrance of Yerkes

What was once a temple for astronomy, designed to reveal the secrets of the heavens, has been transformed to stir the human spirit and reveal different truths in a new way. 

Spools of colored string in a bin

In the air-conditioned and humidity-controlled environment of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, a team of faculty, staff, students, and community volunteers has spent the hot and muggy days of summer thinking abo

Brrrrr… here we go again, turning to the coziness of our homes as the season changes. For me, as a new empty nester, my experience at home is also changing.

Jessica Becker

Welcome to the fall issue of Wisconsin People and Ideas magazine.

Liz Bachhuber and Jill Sebastian, Eat My Words, 2021, aluminum, worm-box (wood, worms, paper, table scraps), snow peas planted in worm-made compost, clay pots, growlights, plywood, shredded paper, handmade pea papercups.

Liz Bachhuber and Jill Sebastian first met in art school in the 1970s and reconnected during the pandemic, when they embarked on a transatlantic collaboration.

Want to turn your yard into a bird paradise? Mariette Nowak, gardener, educator, and ecologist, has a simple suggestion: think beyond bird feeders.

The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets was founded in 1950 by a small group of poets who met at the Memorial Union Terrace in Madison.

Sometimes non-poets wonder what poetry is for—and there are as many answers to that question as there are poets.

Anywhere in a halter top.Between the hard place and the rock: brothels                                                  chemo             cults.

When I was a young girl—too youngto speak up, but old enough to remember—my mother vanished on a long trip, or soI was told. The truth—who knows?I lived with an aunt, who kept me fed

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