Neighbor Spotlight – Page 23 – Riverwest Currents

Neighbor Spotlight – Katie Jesse

by Pat GowensNovember 2013December 2013

If Katie Jesse looks back many years from now at her 20’s, living in Riverwest, trying to remember what her life was like then, she’ll have a good head start.

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Neighbor Spotlight – Sir Pinkerton

by Ellen WarrenOctober 2013November 2013

Sir Pinkerton Xyloma By Ellen C. Warren

So, this spider walks into a bar… Oh wait! That’s not a spider missing six of its legs, that’s Sir Pinkerton Xyloma’s mustache!

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Neighbor Spotlight – Mary Lee Agnew

by Ellen WarrenSeptember 2013November 2013

by Ellen C. Warren It is likely you have seen her riding her floridly-decorated bicycle (“I did this so no one would want to steal it!”) around Riverwest, on the bike paths, anywhere she needs to go. She’s on that bike 365 days a year, rain, snow or sun. Mary Lee doesn’t own a car. She prefers to be out in the natural world, close to the wildlife she loves to observe and photograph.

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Neighbor Spotlight – Jeff Poniewaz

by Ellen WarrenJune 2013December 2013

by Ellen C. Warren, photo provided by J. Poniewaz

Interviewing Milwaukee’s new Poet Laureate at the Urban Ecology Center is perfect. Not only is Jeff Poniewaz considered an eco-poet and a nature poet (he differentiates between the two in that the former carries a message, a call to action), he also sat on the original board of directors of the Riverside Nature Center which eventually morphed into the Urban Ecology Center. Quite at home, he exhibits pride in the place where, until recently, he taught his UWM course, “Literature of Ecological Vision.”

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Neighbor Spotlight – Remembering Chuck Phillips

by Currents StaffJune 2013December 2013

“…the fire of wild flowers.”

In Memory of Charles Leonard Phillips

by Ellen C. Warren

Farewell Chuck! Good friend to many. My friend. Marvelous poet. Owner of the unforgettable and inimitable resounding voice. Mentor and advisor to the young. Lifelong seeker and, sometimes, finder. Wise man with a heart of gold and a vision that roiled from the deepest darkness and leapt to the most beneficent light.