Tom May is associate professor of bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin; Dr. Ralph Schapira is a professor of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. They talk to Lake Effect about the medical and ethical questions that must be raised about a possible swine flu pandemic. For more information on the swine flu situation, you can follow WUWM’s and NPR’s coverage, or visit these regional and nationalresources.
Angela Sorby reading from her newest book of poetry Bird Skin Coat, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. It won the 2009 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Sorby is an associate professor of English at Marquette University.
Playwright and former waitress Beth Monhollen talks about her newest play Stations of the Cross, which runs through May 31st at Bay View’s Boulevard Theatre. She says Stations asks what makes a meaningful life, through the often funny prism of waiting tables.