poetry
When we turn the earthin our yard for garden,the last tenant’s burials
emerge as bones.Let us say some wordsfor every creature that breathed
The red edge of morning, like a razor,slits the dark. No more excuses. TodayI will be sharpened. I will be moremyself as I would be. No espaliered
She starved herselfthinking about grace.How difficult it was
to be nothingbut flesh: prickly, contrarious,pretending to get by
Wisconsin People & Ideas, the Wisconsin Academy’s magazine of contemporary Wisconsin thought and culture, presents a Wisconsin Book Festival reading featuring the winners of the statewide 2020 Fiction & Poetry Contests, hosted by editor Ja
Your dead father dogs youlike the white mutt that roams
along the fishing holes and walksthe edge of gravel roads, sometimes
at a trot, most times slow,but with purpose, muscle and sinew
The Poetry Trail in Newport State Park at the tip of Door Peninsula offers a unique experience of poetry, community, and nature.
Wisconsin People & Ideas, our quarterly magazine of contemporary Wisconsin thought and culture, presents a special Wisconsin Book Festival reading featuring the winners of our statewide Fiction & Poetry Con
For those of us who have been taking shelter among words during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new collection of Wisconsin poetry created just for the occasion has arrived.
There’s something to be saidabout standing on the center lineof a bustling four-lane road,cars skimming by in front and behind meas I watch my stainless steel thermosbumble along toward the opposite curb
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