by George Martin George Floyd’s daughter Gigi, 6, shouted “Daddy changed the world!” after her dad’s arrest-death. The country and the world saw George Floyd’s life squeezed out of him by a Minneapolis police officer’s knee on his neck. Since his death on May 25, 2020, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement mobilized over seven […]
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Random Musings While “Safer at Home”
by Eileen Ciezki You are reading this in the month of May and I have had to write this in mid-April, in the midst of “Safer at Home.” This is a time of fear, worry, sadness, grief, hardship. But we just celebrated Passover and Easter— both fitting promises for these hard times we are all […]
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Woodland Pattern Poetry Coalition Reading
WOODLAND PATTERNBOOKCENTER 720 E. LOCUST ST. MILWAUKEE, WI 53212 p. 414-263-5001 SATURDAY, MARCH 17, Woodland Pattern will host a reading with Nikki Wallschlaeger, Jay Besemer, and Jose-Luis Moctezuma. The reading was organized by Milwaukee Poet Laureate, Roberto Harrison. WoodlandPattern is part of The Poetry Coalition , an alliance of more than 20 poetry organizations across […]
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Neighbor Spotlight January 2016
Kavon Jones – KJ Prodigy by Ellen C Warren Did you see that poet biking down the streets of Riverwest? The one that made you laugh about fried chicken at last year’s Riverwest Follies. The one that you might not have recognized since he’s left nearly fifty pounds behind in the last several months […]
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February RAA Artist Profile 2016
Vedale and Darren Hill – Art and Karma by Elizabeth Vogt photo by John Rubartsch Here we are in Milwaukee—Smallwaukee, Killwaukee, a city of festivals, industrial rebirth, and lakeside marvels, a city of gun violence and segregation—our city. We all have our rounds here: work, play, people, and places. Some of the turf is so […]