Author: ArtRoot's Writer-In-Residence

The ArtRoot Writer-In-Residence (WIR) project is an initiative founded by ArtRoot, a collaboration of artists and arts advocates who are determined to reinvigorate Racine, WI through the arts. This project is supported by the Racine Literacy Council, and funded through a generous grant from the Osborne & Scekic Family Foundation. This project seeks to spotlight Racine and Kenosha’s dynamic literary community while encouraging, supporting, and advocating on behalf of writers at all stages of their careers.

Racine city transit: Equity, safety and service remain top priorities

City of Racine Transportation and mobility director Trevor Jung provided evidence to refute criticisms that public transit fails to serve areas of the city that had been subject to red lining. 

Acknowledging the limitations of some routes’ evening and weekend availability, Jung said the city is constantly looking for savings solutions to address budgetary constraints and opportunities to improve service. 

In addition to a September job fair highlighting employers and services along Ryde Racine routes, an upcoming regional transit review that includes public input could inform future improvements.

Still RYDE-ing the bus

Racine public transit director Trevor Jung faces challenges to keep Racine public transit ridership headed toward growth In his first two years as Director of Transportation and Mobility for the City of Racine, Trevor Jung has worked in tandem with Mayor Mason’s Paris Climate Accord pledge by increasing bike, scooter and pedestrian accessibility, while he’s…

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A Tale of Two Causeways

City and county disagree over road names, with 400 feet of indigenous recognition but $30,000 short of more

On an Island in the Root River

A wide, mowed pathway takes you past two large stretches of colorful prairie grasses and pollinator plants, out to a clearing along shoreline overlook where you might see a great blue heron perched on the discarded Piggly Wiggly shopping cart on the opposite bank. Bees of various sizes and a range of patterned butterflies flit from bud to blossom.

“I’m so glad to hear that,” volunteer Dave Hecht says from under his tan straw hat when the thunder rolls. 

The Meaning of the Mounds

Before Woodland, Ho-Chunk, Menominee or Potawatomi inhabited the area, the Mound People traveled and lived in Racine millennia ago A sonnet of mounds remains  to tell with silent green — the dead on dead, who gets counted,  and who gets named          who owns which plots,                          who gets seen,  dug out even amid red echoes  of…

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Movements, Migrations & Transportations

A few words (or more) about the theme(s) of the July-Dec. 2023 residency Movement 1 The red brick  of College Ave. covers  roots I’ve grown into that  wound around me  on the hallows of kringled ground,  where our trees curl upward  and into each other even as concrete hides the shore  that opens  its tide’s…

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A Sense of Truth

Hello, everybody, this is my final piece for my term as Racine Writer in Residence. I would like to thank the Racine Literacy Council for this opportunity. It has been a pleasure to share my work with all of you. These last six months have gone by fast and this position has kept me busy…

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