Landward
with Catherine Young
Thursdays around 8:25AM
Catherine Young is a performing artist and writer whose life is devoted to protecting water. Trained in fluvial geomorphology, Catherine worked as a national park ranger, naturalist, educator, farmer, and mother before completing her MFA in creative writing in British Columbia. Her prose and poetry has been nominated for Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays and is published internationally and nationally, including in the anthologies The Driftless Reader and Contours. She is the author of the memoir of place, Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal (Torrey House Press)and the ecopoetry collection Geosmin (Water’s Edge Press, Midwest Book Awards Silver Medal).
Rooted in farm life, Catherine lives with her family in Wisconsin’s Driftless bioregion. Her podcasts and writings can be found at: www.catherineyoungwriter.com/
The Crystalline Bed of St. Peter, Part II October 14, 2021
The Crystalline Bed of St. Peter, Part II, by Catherine Young
Smitten with the layers of limestone and sandstone that line these Wisconsin hills, these loveliest of golden layer cakes, how does one person dwelling in the Driftless Area protect the land and waters?
The Crystalline Bed of St. Peter, Part I October 7, 2021
The Crystalline Bed of St. Peter, Part I, by Catherine Young
Smitten with the layers of limestone and sandstone that line these Wisconsin hills, these loveliest of golden layer cakes, how does one person dwelling in the Driftless Area protect the land and waters?
INVOCATION: CALL IT HOME September 30, 2021
INVOCATION: CALL IT HOME by Catherine Young is from the poetry collection Geosmin.
Begun in 2007 in response to the first wave of devastating floods in our Driftless region, the poem is a way to speak what is beloved and why we stay. INVOCATION was published as a poster with artwork by Stephanie Motz to celebrate and uplift the place where we dwell, and to ask everyone who reads it to respond with art and poetry.
STIPPLED PASSING
STIPPLED PASSING September 23, 2021
Catherine reads STIPPLED PASSING from her poetry collection Geosmin.
The poem is response to the Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem PIED BEAUTY and its “rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim” as well as the trout in a farm’s creek and the change of season slipping into autumn.