Episodes

A conversation with Greg Mickells, retiring director of Madison Public Library

It’s Not Nothing: Essayist Peter Coviello on How Our Favorite Books and Songs Help Us Make Worlds Together

Madison's Shoshauna Shy on bringing poetry to the public

Heather Swan’s Lyrical Language Of Beauty And Devastation

Thomas Pearson, Author Of An Ordinary Future, On Disability And Difference

The Dane County Farmers' Market Cookbook With Food Writer Terese Allen

Prof. Stephen Kantrowitz, ”Citizens Of A Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History Of The 19th Century United States.”

Al Jarreau is one of the most beloved musical artists to come out of Milwaukee, and his music – from jazz to pop to R&B – defies easy classification. He performed with a bevy of jazz musicians, and blended an eclectic mix of other styles into his work. But Jarreau is perhaps best known for his live performances and expressive vocal improvisation. When he passed away in 2017, the New York Times wrote of Jarreau’s “virtuosic ability to produce an array of vocalizations ranging from delicious nons...

Poet Tacey M. Atsitty on Risking Your Heart and Being Swallowed Up

UW Prof. Stephen Kantrowitz, "Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the 19th Century United States "

Alison Townsend On The Spirit Of Place

What Are You Reading?

A Musical Translation of Movement: Jérôme Camal on Guadeloupean Gwoka and (Post) Coloniality

Joyce Carol Oates, "Zero-Sum"

B. Pladek’s Magical Intersection Of Ecology And History

Jon Melrod's "Fighting Times" in Wisconsin

Novelist And Poet Quan Barry On Nonduality, Communicating Beyond Language, And Writing Across Genres

Poet Deshawn McKinney On Vulnerability As A Muscle

Scholar Nicole Fox On Memorials, Transitional Justice, And The Inescapability Of Memory