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.

Memory of shared place fills the poem FOR MICHAEL ALL ALONG THE JUNCTION TRAIL by Sandra Lindow.

Gravity takes a group of children on a go cart ride in PALM STREET by Cathryn Confell.

Poet Karen Nystrom wonders at the language of ravens and her poem of the same name, RAVENS.

Poet Paulette Lauder writes a love letter to place in DEAR APOSTLE ISLANDS NATIONAL LAKESHORE.

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 CHILDHOOD SUMMERS. Lucy Johns gives visceral details of childhood at the lake in her poem, SHAWANO LAKE.

Poet Susan Twiggs uses the form of the "little villain", the villanelle, to portray an expert angler in THE ANGLER’S VILLANELLE.

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 itself becomes a celebration in her poem NEAR THE LAKE.

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 TO HANG AN INSTALLATION.

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 to corner store in summer to its welcoming freezer treats.