Podcasts
From Written to Spoken Word
by Catherine Young
by Catherine Young
The human voice gives life to the written word.
In 2014, I began the journey of recording my published writing for Pageturner Radio
on WDRT Community Radio 91.9FM in Viroqua, Wisconsin.
In 2014, I began the journey of recording my published writing for Pageturner Radio
on WDRT Community Radio 91.9FM in Viroqua, Wisconsin.
Many thanks to Cyndy Hubbard for her years of work on Pageturner Radio
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"Smoke"
Two thousand miles east of the Pacific Ocean in the Great Lakes region of North America, the stars were blotted out by smoke from west coast wildfires. For me it was an eerily familiar scene from my childhood. Published in About Place Journal Geographies of Justice 2021
Two thousand miles east of the Pacific Ocean in the Great Lakes region of North America, the stars were blotted out by smoke from west coast wildfires. For me it was an eerily familiar scene from my childhood. Published in About Place Journal Geographies of Justice 2021
"The Crystalline Bed of St. Peter"
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 the land and waters? Published in Still Point Arts Quarterly 2021
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 the land and waters? Published in Still Point Arts Quarterly 2021
"Island"
"One solitary letter, an umlaut of longing, floats in my consciousness – ö – the Swedish word for island. Elegant and simple. Round and separate. Grounded. Singular. An island is a landing place, welcoming me home." Explore island as place in the Driftless Area, in Lake Superior, on a mountaintop, or on the dance floor. Published in Midwest Review, Issue 5: 2017.
"Island" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize
"One solitary letter, an umlaut of longing, floats in my consciousness – ö – the Swedish word for island. Elegant and simple. Round and separate. Grounded. Singular. An island is a landing place, welcoming me home." Explore island as place in the Driftless Area, in Lake Superior, on a mountaintop, or on the dance floor. Published in Midwest Review, Issue 5: 2017.
"Island" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize
"Water Song"
"In the hills and hollows of the Driftless Area, water has always determined the shape of the land; it makes it possible for us to live. We learn to make peace with rain and ask as we make our homes here: What does the water bring to us, and what does it carry away?" Published in About Place Journal: The Future of Water, November 2013
"In the hills and hollows of the Driftless Area, water has always determined the shape of the land; it makes it possible for us to live. We learn to make peace with rain and ask as we make our homes here: What does the water bring to us, and what does it carry away?" Published in About Place Journal: The Future of Water, November 2013
"Island Voices,"
Published in the anthology Permanent Vacation II: Eighteen Writers on Life and Work in Our National Parks. Young writes of living and working in the Apostle Islands as a National Park Ranger in 1982. "Sometimes working on Raspberry Island I was a sailor lost at sea. I could find neither my way, nor my memory. It was just Me and the Lake. The Lake and I."
Published in the anthology Permanent Vacation II: Eighteen Writers on Life and Work in Our National Parks. Young writes of living and working in the Apostle Islands as a National Park Ranger in 1982. "Sometimes working on Raspberry Island I was a sailor lost at sea. I could find neither my way, nor my memory. It was just Me and the Lake. The Lake and I."
"Coal Year"
"Coal Year" was published in Kestrel, the literary journal from West Virginia's Fairmont State University in 2017, an excerpt from Young's forthcoming memoir, Black Diamonds, Blue Flames - A Childhood Colored by Coal. "Coal Year" is almanac of a family's relationship to coal in the largest coal mining valley in the world, Lackawanna Valley, Pennsylvania, in the 1960's.
"Coal Year" was nominated for Best American Essays
"Coal Year" was published in Kestrel, the literary journal from West Virginia's Fairmont State University in 2017, an excerpt from Young's forthcoming memoir, Black Diamonds, Blue Flames - A Childhood Colored by Coal. "Coal Year" is almanac of a family's relationship to coal in the largest coal mining valley in the world, Lackawanna Valley, Pennsylvania, in the 1960's.
"Coal Year" was nominated for Best American Essays
"Emerging: January 24,1959,"
Three excerpts from the flash nonfiction series. A distillation of events recorded on January 24, 1959, in newspapers on that date in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The stories are all related to the theme emerging. Published in Anamesa. Fall 2014, Issue 12, Number 2.
Three excerpts from the flash nonfiction series. A distillation of events recorded on January 24, 1959, in newspapers on that date in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The stories are all related to the theme emerging. Published in Anamesa. Fall 2014, Issue 12, Number 2.
"Midsommar"
"Years ago, when I played with a group of Swedish-American musicians, five fiddlers from the town of Leksand in Dalarna gave a workshop in America. They announced the planned workshop with them in Leksand at Midsommar, and I asked to go along. I was willing to do anything to put myself in the scene of my childhood postcard. But nothing turned out as planned." Published in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, March 2017.
"Years ago, when I played with a group of Swedish-American musicians, five fiddlers from the town of Leksand in Dalarna gave a workshop in America. They announced the planned workshop with them in Leksand at Midsommar, and I asked to go along. I was willing to do anything to put myself in the scene of my childhood postcard. But nothing turned out as planned." Published in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, March 2017.
"A Cup of Tea"
"I take the thick-walled porcelain cup into my hands. Words from my childhood spin inside it—Grandma’s words: 'But for the blink of an eye, you wouldn’t be here.'” Published in the online magazine Punctuate in February 2017.
"I take the thick-walled porcelain cup into my hands. Words from my childhood spin inside it—Grandma’s words: 'But for the blink of an eye, you wouldn’t be here.'” Published in the online magazine Punctuate in February 2017.
"Recipe By Heart"
Read by Catherine Young and Celeste Thalhammer. "When I make my family’s pasta sauce, it tastes the way Mama made it and the way Grandma’s tasted in her kitchen when I was very young. There was no other kind of sauce..." ( "Recipe by Heart." Hippocampus Magazine. N.p., Sept. 2016. Web. 11 Sept. 2016.) Published in the online journal Hippocampus, September 2016.
Read by Catherine Young and Celeste Thalhammer. "When I make my family’s pasta sauce, it tastes the way Mama made it and the way Grandma’s tasted in her kitchen when I was very young. There was no other kind of sauce..." ( "Recipe by Heart." Hippocampus Magazine. N.p., Sept. 2016. Web. 11 Sept. 2016.) Published in the online journal Hippocampus, September 2016.
"Sweet Beginnings," "How to Tap a Maple Tree," "Maple Popcorn"
"Sweet Beginnings" - a fictional story of a grandfather and his granddaughter boiling down sap one night. Published in Cricket magazine, March 2015.
“Tapping a Maple Tree" nonfiction & "Maple Popcorn” recipe. Published in Cricket magazine, March 2015.
"Q & A on Maple Syruping" with Catherine Young and Cyndy Hubbard
"Sweet Beginnings" - a fictional story of a grandfather and his granddaughter boiling down sap one night. Published in Cricket magazine, March 2015.
“Tapping a Maple Tree" nonfiction & "Maple Popcorn” recipe. Published in Cricket magazine, March 2015.
"Q & A on Maple Syruping" with Catherine Young and Cyndy Hubbard
"Water, Tree, Heart: Mapping the Driftless Area"
"Maps usually show the birds-eye view; my view of the Driftless Area is from below. My training was in the geography of river-shaped landscapes, and my work gave me an intimate picture of the waters of the Wisconsin's Driftless Area. In those years, the Driftless Area called to my heart, and I wanted to answer, calling it home. I invite you to listen as I explore a map of the heart." Published in the anthology Imagination & Place: Cartography, February 2013
"Maps usually show the birds-eye view; my view of the Driftless Area is from below. My training was in the geography of river-shaped landscapes, and my work gave me an intimate picture of the waters of the Wisconsin's Driftless Area. In those years, the Driftless Area called to my heart, and I wanted to answer, calling it home. I invite you to listen as I explore a map of the heart." Published in the anthology Imagination & Place: Cartography, February 2013
"Rediscovering Intricacy"
"I wish for our country and our world that everyone would begin to grow food even if it is one small plant – to acknowledge our place in the great cycle. By doing so, I believe we will rediscover ways to help those who are homeless or in need." Published in About Place Journal: Voices of the Human Spirit, November 2014.
"I wish for our country and our world that everyone would begin to grow food even if it is one small plant – to acknowledge our place in the great cycle. By doing so, I believe we will rediscover ways to help those who are homeless or in need." Published in About Place Journal: Voices of the Human Spirit, November 2014.
"St. Anthony Comes Around"
"Have you ever lost something you treasured and haven't known where to look? You could always call on St. Anthony," says Catherine Young. “St Anthony Comes Around” published in Extra Innings, #76, February 2016.
“Shoreline Instructions for Lake Superior” published in Aqueous Magazine, Summer 2016, Vol. 11. “My Mother Had a Relationship with Good Bread” published in Feile-Festa, Spring 2015 issue.
"Have you ever lost something you treasured and haven't known where to look? You could always call on St. Anthony," says Catherine Young. “St Anthony Comes Around” published in Extra Innings, #76, February 2016.
“Shoreline Instructions for Lake Superior” published in Aqueous Magazine, Summer 2016, Vol. 11. “My Mother Had a Relationship with Good Bread” published in Feile-Festa, Spring 2015 issue.
