Jonathan Shipley

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation|Paperback New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who sav...

The legendary Seamus Heaney. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beowulf-se...

How Close Did We Come to Losing Beowulf Forever? There are cases of important literary and historical works that survive in only one or two manuscripts. If they had suffered some accident, then our picture of the past might be altered in important…

Book nerds, Beowulf has barely survived several disasters. (Story c/o @lithub.com.web.brid.gy) #BookSky lithub.com/how-close-di...

Happy Halloween. My favorite kinda creepy poem: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/...

The new $50M Literary Arts Fund will support independent publishers and nonprofits A coalition of seven charitable foundations has established a Literary Arts Fund to support independent publishers and nonprofit organizations.

Thank you, Literary Arts Fund. apnews.com/article/lite...

Your latest prescription is to get outside Health care providers are trying a new tactic to promote the healing effects of nature: They're actually writing prescriptions for it.

Stop scrolling. Start hiking.
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YouTube video by Post 111 What's a Meat Raffle

Before moving to the Midwest, I had never heard of a meat raffle. I was the poorer for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOPT...

Carlsberg creates the world’s smallest beer – a non-alcoholic symbol of responsible drinking For 150 years, Carlsberg has led groundbreaking innovation and research. Now, the company takes a new and unique step in collaboration with the research institute RISE, the company Glaskomponent, and ...

A typical Wisconsinite will probably need to order about 4.2 million of these during a Packers game. #WisconsinSky www.carlsberggroup.com/newsroom/car...

Home Depot Introduces New 12-Foot-Tall Willem Dafoe ATLANTA—Saying the novelty decoration would add the perfect touch to Halloween yard displays, the Home Depot announced Friday it had begun selling a new 12-foot-tall Willem Dafoe in stores nationwide....

Something to consider as you decorate this Halloween season. theonion.com/home-depot-i...

Progressive Wisconsinite, to be sure. #NoKings

As a writer, sometimes you read a book that explodes in your brain because it's wondrous, it has a singular voice that's both a praise song and a prayer, and reminds you that you, too, have a voice. That book for me right now is this one. #BookSky

Three Years After Trial Launch, Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent Several years after launching a trial, Ireland is set to make its basic income for artists program permanent starting in 2026.

This, but everywhere. #ArtSky www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

“How Living Are His Portraits of the Dead.” Toni Morrison on the Photography of James Van Der Zee Below is Toni Morrison’s introduction to The Harlem Book of the Dead by James Van Der Zee, Owen Dodson, and Camille Billops It is fashionable these days to hear among photography lovers the c…

Toni Morrison discusses photography. I like Toni Morrison. I like photography. #PhotographySky lithub.com/how-living-a...

Quan Barry on Writing a Horror Novel Set in Antarctica Quan Barry is an award-winning playwright (and poet) as well as a novelist, skills which show in the virtuosity of the ensemble of characters she has created in The Unveiling. Her primary narrator …

Quon Barry, an English professor at @uwmadison.bsky.social, has a new book out - a horror novel set in Antarctica. @lithub.com.web.brid.gy recently chatted with her about it. #BookSky lithub.com/quan-barry-o...

I briefly wrote, some time back, about the great women making great beers in the great state of Wisconsin. #WisconsinSky #BeerSky 608today.6amcity.com/business/thi...

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

‘My grandfather would be proud’: Carrying on a cranberry tradition in Wisconsin Allison Jonjak comes from a multigeneration family cranberry farm in Sawyer County. As a cranberry outreach specialist traveling around the state, she believes the industry is moving in a positive dir...

Were you aware that Wisconsin grows 60% of the nation's cranberries? We're the leading producer in the country. (story c/o Wisconsin Public Radio) #WisconsinSky www.wpr.org/news/cranber...

James Janko | Town Hall Seattle In the Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus, Palestine, sixteen-year-old Amal Tuqan finds her escape in tightrope walking. Living in an alley so narrow that "the walls hold their breath," she practices tirel...

Seattle folks, my friends at @townhallseattle.bsky.social are hosting writer James Janko tomorrow night. Might I suggest you go? Janko's The Wire-Walker focuses on a relationship between a 16-year-old Palestinian tightrope walker and a Jewish Israeli juggler. townhallseattle.org/event/james-...

36 Hours in Madison, Wis. (Gift Article) Embrace this beer-and-cheese-loving Midwestern capital with farmers’ markets, cozy supper clubs and picturesque lakeside strolls.

The @nytimes.com spent 36 hours in my town. #WIsconsinSky www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust My family had once been proud of me. In March 2011, my sister Terry went to the trouble of stuffing Post‑it notes into every issue of O, the Oprah Magazine in the checkout line of her grocery store…

Support local journalism. Around here that would include fine institutions like @madison.com @tonemadison.bsky.social @madisonmagazine.bsky.social @isthmusmadison.bsky.social @captimes.com @upnorthnewswi.bsky.social. lithub.com/how-the-coll...

During Women’s History Month, remembering a Ho-Chunk woman She called herself Washington Woman proudly. The Ho-Chunk woman called herself that because she was the only woman in a delegation of chiefs sent to Washington, D.C. in1828. She stood

On Indigenous Peoples' Day, a story I wrote a bit ago about Haakejanįheįga, wife of Ho-Chunk Chief Yellow Thunder. wiscnews.com/community/ba...

Poems for Indigenous Peoples' Day As long as we live on occupied territory, every day is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Join us as we look to the work of Joy Harjo, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Laura Da’, Natalie Diaz, Heid E.

We lay together under the stars.
We know ourselves to be part of mystery.
It is unspeakable.
It is everlasting.
It is for keeps.
- from Joy Harjo's "For Keeps"

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. #PoetrySky poets.org/anthology/po...

An AP photographer from Gaza shares the stories behind her images of the war AP photographer Fatima Shbair tells the stories behind some of her most poignant images from covering the war in her homeland of Gaza.

An @apnews.com photographer looks back on their time in Gaza. apnews.com/article/gaza...

Congrats to the 2025 MacArthur Fellows, including TWO from @uwmadison.bsky.social. www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

Interesting to note - the world's oldest Tilt-a-Whirl is down the road from me in Marshall, Wisconsin. #WisconsinSky www.facebook.com/UpNorthNewsW...

October 8, 1871- Deadliest wildfire sweeps through northeast Wisconsin On this day- October 8, 1871- the deadliest wildfire in American history swept through Northeast Wisconsin.

The Great Chicago Fire was today, in 1871. No one remembers, then, the Peshtigo Fire that also happened on that day in Wisconsin. It is the deadliest wildfire in American history. #WisconsinSky #TheMoreYouKnow www.wmtv15news.com/2025/10/08/o...

The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time

For journalism nerds - the 25 most influential magazine covers of all time (c/o the @nytimes.com): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

From one of the most inspiring upbeat people in Wisconsin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GeQ...

Happy Banned Books Week to those that celebrate. #BookSky bannedbooksweek.org

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)