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Landward
Driftless area writer Catherine Young shares her personal work and that of other writers she enjoys. Catherine's writing "reimagines art, earth and spirit".
Episodes
LandwardOctober 29th, 2026
Poet Megan Muthupandiyan portrays in the burnished prairie in THE BLUESTEM.
LandwardOctober 22nd, 2026
Poet Joan Wiese Johannes questions whether trails really end in WINDING MY WAY THROUGH HORICON MARSH.
LandwardOctober 15th, 2026
UPPER MISSISSIPPI ALLEGIANCE by Marisa Lanker asks us to consider our Wisconsin-produced food, the land, and the people who do the work.
LandwardOctober 8th, 2026
A cobbled together train becomes a cantering Pinto in the poem A LOVE AFFAIR WITH TIFFANY BOTTOMS by Sandra Lindow.
LandwardOctober 1st, 2026
WEST FORK OF THE KICKAPOO RIVER by Martha Kaplan celebrates the river and what it can hold for us.
LandwardSeptember 24th, 2026
From a birds eye view, poet Ronnie Hess sees her city wrapped in gauze in her poem FLYING ABOVE WISCONSIN.
LandwardSeptember 17th, 2026
In Phyllis Wax's poem SEPTEMBER SONG, memory layers the places we known so well with other places known in past times.
LandwardSeptember 10th, 2026
For poet Margaret Rozga, hope is found in all of the beings of a prairie depicted in her poem HOPE IS A STALK OF PURPLE ASTERS.
LandwardSeptember 3rd, 2026
Poet Joan Wiese Johannes portrays the cycling memories of an ending in her poem RENTAL COTTAGE SOLD.
LandwardAugust 27th, 2026
Paulette Cresswell brings the sensorial delights of Door County in her poem, THROUGH THE DOOR. Poet Sheryl Slocum takes the reader on a journey underground in…
LandwardAugust 20th, 2026
Poet Mark Zimmerman's ASHORE brings us to land's end in a palindrome poem. Adrienne Wallner's poem AN OFFERING ALONG THE MENOMINEE RIVER is psalm to place.
LandwardAugust 13th, 2026
Memory of shared place fills the poem FOR MICHAEL ALL ALONG THE JUNCTION TRAIL by Sandra Lindow.
LandwardAugust 6th, 2026
Gravity takes a group of children on a go cart ride in PALM STREET by Cathryn Confell.
LandwardJuly 30th, 2026
Poet Karen Nystrom wonders at the language of ravens and her poem of the same name, RAVENS.
LandwardJuly 23rd, 2026
Poet Paulette Lauder writes a love letter to place in DEAR APOSTLE ISLANDS NATIONAL LAKESHORE.
LandwardJuly 16th, 2026
Poet Gigi Macaset of Viroqua, Wisconsin recounts the loveliest of details of childhood visits to that County in FISH CREEK DOOR COUNTY WISCONSIN HOME OF MY…
LandwardJuly 9th, 2026
Poet Susan Twiggs uses the form of the "little villain", the villanelle, to portray an expert angler in THE ANGLER’S VILLANELLE.
LandwardJuly 2nd, 2026
In the poem JULY 4TH ON LITTLE SISSABAGAMA by Jeffrey Johannes, being on the lake in a canoe holds as much richness as the fireworks. For Phyllis Wax, the lake…
LandwardJune 25th, 2026
Poet Wendy Vardaman responds to the art installation of hundreds of homing pigeons representing world languages and the grounds of Write on, Door County in HOW…
LandwardJune 18th, 2026
In PUMPKINVINE ROAD CIRCA 1960 poet Christy L. Schwan maps place with the finest details of riding a bike and knowing all the holes in a road, with destination…
LandwardJune 11th, 2026
The poet’s wonderful mind sees giraffes’ relationship to ferns in Sandy Stark’s poem A POET AND A SCIENTIST TAKE A WALK and Jim Landwehr considers Lake…
LandwardJune 4th, 2026
Wisconsin’s tallgrass prairies are so alive and full of sound in summer. Margaret Rozga considers this in her poem WALKING THE PRAIRIE. Catherine Young shares…
LandwardMay 28th, 2026
In her acrostic poem TWO WHEELS AND A VIEW ACROSTIC ON THE GLACIAL DRUMLIN TRAIL Nancy Jorgensen uses the letters naming the trail to go on a poetic and…
LandwardMay 21st, 2026
If you fish for trout are you a trout fisherman? That’s the question Jim Landwehr poses in his poem TROUT FISHING IN THE DRIFTLESS AREA.
LandwardMay 14th, 2026
Have you ever considered just how much food is produced in Wisconsin and how good it is? Poet Nancy Austin gives us a tour in FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY K CHOLESTROL…
