Wisconsin People & Ideas
You have to admire a poetry chapbook whose self-contradicting opening line trumpets, “Now is not the time to begin …” The poem, “Digging in the Fat Box,” a kind of encomium to failed diets and body fat as symptoms of spiritual longing (“wanting /
As Donna Neuwirth sees it, the recent economic downturn has created an opportunity for Wisconsinites to re-imagine our relationship with food and entertainment.
The fever started during lunch at a friend’s cabin on the Wisconsin River this spring. Over sandwiches and homemade potato salad, my friend offered us an open-ended invitation to stay for a week at the cabin during the summer.
I loved the words, the names,when I was a boy whenhis blue eye turned meto the muscular heft of arms,Winchester and Remington,
Let your dog runsee where it goes
what it turns upwhat it brings back
a hollow yellow balla blue baby shoe
a rabbit-skin glovethe thumb torn off
a shimmering star-ling fluttering in
As Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons strode on the stage of Milwaukee's historic Turner Hall, the audience—compr
You might have noticed something a little different when you picked up this issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas. It's true: we've had a makeover.
A brief cultural history of a Wisconsin institution (yes, it's ours).
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