THE BLUE IN THE DISTANCE by Minnesota Poet Laureate, Joyce Sutphen, is from her collection Carrying Water to the Field. The poet paints April’s color shift as it moves on the land.

STRAIGHT OUT OF VIEW by Minnesota Poet Laureate, Joyce Sutphen, is from her collection Carrying Water to the Field. The poet moves us from page — to rural land — and then back again.

In this essay, And Then I Went Back to the Land, Catherine Young takes us on a journey from the Great Depression through food co-ops considering where our food comes from and why.

Rich in description of desert landscape, Mussentuchit Badlandsis from the memoir When I Was Red Clay: A Journey of Identity, Healing and Wonderby Jonathan T Bailey, published in 2022 by Torrey House Press.

In this memoir piece In That River I Saw Him Again, Catherine Young tells a story of trains, photography and what the heart remembers.

DENDROUS AND MATTER by Catherine Young are two poems that look at the poetry in science. They are from her collection Geosmin published in 2022 by Water’s Edge Press.

Gas Stove is from the memoir Black Diamonds: a Childhood Colored by Coal by Catherine Young, published in 2023 by Torrey House Press. The memoir looks back on childhood in a Pennsylvania coal mining Valley, and Gas Stove tells of the shift from coal to gas in the early 1960s.

AT FIRST SIGHT by Catherine Young is a short poem for the mid-winter celebration of love.

TO SURVIVNG COLD WINTERS by Daniel Smith is from Poems from the Winter House published in 2023

by Water’s Edge Press.