By Cecilia Farran My father was a farmer whose father was a farmer’s son, and so it had been as far back as the ancestral stories can be remembered; into Europe, into…
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Poetry by Voice of the River Valley Readers
by Michael Brandt From everywhere you seem to comedraping long, black ribbons across the sky.For…
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By Justin O’Brien One might be forgiven to sayhe resembled a garden gnome,with a nose…
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By Grace Vosen Geologists will call this place “Driftless,”But it defies term, time, and space,…
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By Fil Sanna Remembered fields of red grassOrange berries and red trees in the fallThe…
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There were no fireworks on the fourth. Instead, so many flags at half mast.But I was…
Read More → Apodiformes trochlidae(unfooted small bird) I am a hummer; I bustlefrom blossom to blossom all day.My…
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I am not always a poet.But today I am a poet because someone has to give…
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God bless those pale wisps,with soft names likeMichelle Pfeiffer,Cate Blanchett,Gwyneth Paltrow;But sometimes,I can barely recallwho…
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We lay side-by-side on the grass bank next to the corn field across from our…
I started this column focused on the long list of painful, frightening and in so many…
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This month’s cover art by Linda Kelen of Spring Green is titled “Littlehead” (cherry woodblock…
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By John McWilliams In February 2018, my wife, Beth, and I purchased the Samuel Coad…
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By Nancy Schmalz Far below the turbulent eddiesof ordinary air and light, in the havenwhere…
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This month’s cover art is a section of “Redemption” by Lois Hall, who keeps her…
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This month’s cover photograph of a late December evening sky at Bakken’s Pond near Spring…
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This month’s cover art is titled “Fantasy Cabin” by Jeff Jachimiec of Dodgeville. Jeff was…
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February 2020’s cover art, “Sleeping Fox,” is by Cynthia Quinn, a Wisconsin native who has…
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By Justin O’Brien Rick Harris, outsider artist, wood carver, musician and raconteur of Mineral Point,…
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Picked up your publication at the Viroqua Co op, very interesting.
A great read! The strongest poetry edition of The Voice yet! And the articles are spectacular, too!