Robert Goldsborough has been a writer and editor in Chicago for almost half a century. He spent more than 20 years each with the Chicago Tribune (where he was Sunday Magazine Editor for seven years) and Advertising Age, the national marketing publication, where he was a writer and editor. He Read more
Milwaukee’s Next Door Foundation will be at the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books collecting new and gently used children’s books for their Books for Kids program. This program, founded in 1990, works through book drives like this one to increase literacy and academic success among Milwaukee’s central city children by getting Read more
Susan Firer is the recipient of this year’s Lorine Niedecker Award. Her most recent book is Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People: New & Selected Poems 1970-2007. Her book The Lives of the Saints and Everything won the Cleveland State Poetry Center Prize and the Posner Award, and The Read more