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.

Perhaps you remember mimeograph coloring sheets at school? How did they help celebrate season? Catherine Young reads Purple Lines from her collection Geosmin.

Learning to read and decode words is like climbing into a canoe and letting the waters carry you. Catherine Young and guest Julie Agar read Baptism from the collection Geosmin

August's ripening elderberries bring to mind the return to school and letting go. Catherine Young reads Elderberries from her collection Geosmin