Catherine reads the poem BY THE CREEK BANK by Tom Hennen from Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems.

Recalling our role in averting tragedy is like walking a tightrope. The poem TIGHTROPE by Catherine Young is from her poetry collection Geosmin.

Catherine Young reads 2 poems from her collection Geosmin.

Many colors of green refill the April landscape in VERDANCY.

Hornets build homes in HYMENOPTERA: WASPS I.

ELOQUENCE ENGRAVED IN STONE by Catherine Young, from her poetry collection Geosmin uses an epigraph from Tony Hoagland’s poetry to describe Driftless Region geology.

SHEPHERD OF TREES by Catherine Young is from her poetry collection Geosmin.

 A caretaker asks trees what they need.

Panoramic by Catherine Young is from her poetry collection Geosmin. Itdescribes a lifetime as a landscape.

COMPOST and REVOLUTION by Catherine Young are are two views of the cycle of life on a farm from her poetry collection Geosmin.

VOLUTE by Catherine Young is from her poetry collection Geosmin.

In VOLUTE, a fossil tells people how everything in the world curls – whether we can see it or not.

WOMEN TENDING by Catherine Young from her poetry collection Geosmin.

WOMEN TENDING moves through time and is told in 3 voices:

From women tending house and home; the women making bricks & pottery for home; the women who make art —those women who tend towards what calls us to create.

The poem celebrates the gifts women have given to the world throughout history in March-- Women’s History Month.

AUBADE FOR THE NEVER-ENDING FLOW OF MILK by Catherine Young from her poetry collection Geosmin.

An aubade is a poem that is written for dawn, a poem that greets the morning, lamenting the end of night when lovers must part. On a farm, aubade can take quite a different meaning after a long night tending the birth of livestock and readying for the day.