Landward

WEST FORK OF THE KICKAPOO RIVER by Martha Kaplan celebrates the river and what it can hold for us.

From a birds eye view, poet Ronnie Hess sees her city wrapped in gauze in her poem FLYING ABOVE WISCONSIN.

In Phyllis Wax's poem SEPTEMBER SONG, memory layers the places we known so well with other places known in past times.

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.

Poet Joan Wiese Johannes portrays the cycling memories of an ending in her poem RENTAL COTTAGE SOLD.

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 CAVE OF THE MOUNDS.

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.