Alison Townsend is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, The Blue Dress and Persephone in America, and a volume of prose, The Persistence of Rivers: An Essay on Moving Water. Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, she lives in the country outside Madison.
Jan/Feb 2020
An Excerpt from “An Alphabet of Here: A Wisconsin Prairie Sampler”
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. A is for New England Aster Purple stars fallen to earth, they bloom around the autumn equinox, shining out from the faded gold […]
Alison Townsend
Alison Townsend is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, The Blue Dress and Persephone in America, and a volume of prose, The Persistence of Rivers: An Essay on […]