Landward

A cobbled together train becomes a cantering Pinto in the poem A LOVE AFFAIR WITH TIFFANY BOTTOMS by Sandra Lindow.

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.

Poet Susan Twiggs uses the form of the "little villain", the villanelle, to portray an expert angler.

In the poem JULY 4TH ON LITTLE SISSABAGAMA by Jeffrey Johannes, being on the lake in a canoe holds as much richness as the fireworks. For Phyllis Wax, the lake itself becomes a celebration in her poem NEAR THE LAKE.

Poet Wendy Vardaman responds to the art installation of hundreds of homing pigeons representing world languages and the grounds of Write on, Door County in HOW TO HANG AN INSTALLATION.

In PUMPKINVINE ROAD CIRCA 1960 poet Christy L. Schwan maps place with the finest details of riding a bike and knowing all the holes in a road, with destination to corner store in summer to its welcoming freezer treats.

The poet’s wonderful mind sees giraffes’ relationship to ferns in Sandy Stark’s poem A POET AND A SCIENTIST TAKE A WALK and Jim Landwehr considers Lake Michigan the littler — and friendlier — sister of Lake Superior in his poem SUPERIOR SISTER.

Wisconsin’s tallgrass prairies are so alive and full of sound in summer. Margaret Rozga considers this in her poem WALKING THE PRAIRIE. Catherine Young shares her poem JUNE IN BUDDY’S PRAIRIE capturing the blue of June in the Faville Grove Sanctuary. Her poem was written for the Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance.

In her acrostic poem TWO WHEELS AND A VIEW ACROSTIC ON THE GLACIAL DRUMLIN TRAIL Nancy Jorgensen uses the letters naming the trail to go on a poetic and imaginative railroad journey.

If you fish for trout are you a trout fisherman? That’s the question Jim Landwehr poses in his poem TROUT FISHING IN THE DRIFTLESS AREA.

Have you ever considered just how much food is produced in Wisconsin and how good it is? Poet Nancy Austin gives us a tour in FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY K CHOLESTROL RUN.

Lisa Vihos portrays one Wisconsin city in her poem A NIGHT IN EAU CLAIRE.