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Wisconsin People & Ideas

Reservation Math

Draw a line to five, when Frank Bitsueis hauling water from the well then counthis living grandchildren and divide themby the ones who chased sheep into the rain.Subract the crash. Add summers and sleep of

Poetry

Following Up

William Quist

I guess you didn't get my letter, since youdied before I put it in the mail.But maybe that's OK—I mean, whatwas left to say anyway? Confession (I neverenjoyed hunting, or peeing in public)?

Poetry

Before Dawn, the Crows

Geoffrey Collins

In cold darkness calling from tree to treeLaughing at our foolish dreamsCrooning love in a long lost keyFeathers at once oil slick and tricksterSwitchblade beaks

Happenings

Getting creative with Shake Rag Alley School for Arts and Crafts

Jason Smith

Book Review

Visiting Tom: A Man, A Highway, and a Road to Roughneck Grace, by Michael Perry

Erika Janik

Michael Perry is upset. The county highway commission wants to reconfigure the patch of road near his house, making it impossible for cars to climb the hill to his home in the winter.

Interview

Interview with Margaret Rozga

Margaret Rozga

In addition to being a poet and a playwright, you are also a Civil Rights activist. How do your ideas from one realm influence another?

Poetry

Janus Calf

Michael Kriesel

Born in an Illinois barn,

that two-headed calf

became a coin Frank flipped

through World War Two,

judging heaven from

a foxhole. “God loves evil…

Profile

Meet Max: Introducing the Wisconsin Poet Laureate

Jason Smith, Max Garland

Meet Max Garland, the Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2013-2014.

Fiction

Plan for Paradise

Christine Stocke

There’s a body at the bottom of the lake. Probably many. The way you react depends on your definition of the word natural. Probably also on your moral compass, but I can’t just start with bodies. Life is about having stories.