The essay "Smoke" by Catherine Young is a reaction to and experience of the wildfire ash that began to cover our Midwestern skies in the fall of 2020 against the background of having frown up in the smoke of the largest coal mining valley in the world.

Catherine reads 2 poem from her poetry collection Geosmin that address the loss of farming in Wissconsin's Driftless Region. The Janus in Farmer.Janus refers tot the two-faced Roman god of beginnings, doorways, passages and endings. The farmer looking forward and back while letting go. Barn Elegiac focuses on the empty barn and all it once held.

Catherine reads from her poetry collection, Geosmin. In his piece "The Word Hoard" British writer-naturalist Robert MacFarlane noted the proposed removal of worth about the natural world in the children's Oxford Dictionary-and this led to an outcry across the English-speaking world. Gathering Acorns, Hoarding Words asks if children do not know the words describing land, how will they know land?

Catherine reads 2 poems to celebrate October, Barbara Cooker's And Now It's October and Genevieve Taggart's The Last Hour

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 land and waters?

Smitten with the layers of limestone and sandstone that line these Wisconsin hills. these loveliest of golden layer cakes, how does one person swelling the Driftless Area protect the land and waters?

Invocation: Call it Home is from Catherine's poetry collection Geosmin and it was begun in 2007 in response to the first wave of devastating floods in our Driftless regions-as a way to speak what is beloved and why we stay. It was published as a poster with artwork by Stephanie Motz to celebrate and uplift the place where we dwell, and to ask all who view it to respond with art and poetry.

Catherine reads Stippled Passing from her poetry collection Geosmin. The poem is response to the Geald Manley Hopkins poem Pied Beauty and its "rose-molesall in stipple upon trout that swim"as well as the trouts in a farm's creek and the change of season slipping into autumn.

Deer hunting in our region is often a means of survival. Catherine Young reads The Shots Came Quick from her collection Geosmin

Catherine reads Joyce Sutphen's poem The Last Apples from her collection Carrying Water to the Field.