This essay appears in the Fall 2013 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.   The past fifteen years have witnessed a modest revival of interest in the work of poet, dramatist, and fiction writer Jay G. Sigmund, Iowa’s “forgotten regionalist.” Attention began with E. Bradford Burns’s splendid history published in 1996, … Continue reading Bard of the Wapsipinicon:[br] An Assessment of Jay G. Sigmund