Prose & Poetry
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For recordingsof many of the following publications,
visit the PODCASTS page or the LANDWARD page
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Click on any of the highlighted writings below to read the texts
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For recordingsof many of the following publications,
visit the PODCASTS page or the LANDWARD page
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Click on any of the highlighted writings below to read the texts
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Audio
Water Tree Heart musical composition with essay created for and published by About Place Journal (online)
On Rivers, Volume VII, Issue III, June 2023
On Rivers, Volume VII, Issue III, June 2023
Video
Prose
The essay "Invisi / disa bility in COVID Times" is published in
Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology by West Virginia University Press 2023
Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology by West Virginia University Press 2023
Invisi / disa / bility Pre and Post Covid
Read it here: 3rd Place winner of the Covid Challenge at Humans of the World
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"Smoke," About Place Geographies of Justice, (online) Spring 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. Go to - "Smoke " in About Place Journal Geographies of Justice Listen to a recording on the Podcasts page |
"The Crystalline Bed of St.Peter"
Still Point Arts Quarterly,
(online & print ) Love of Land Issue # 41 Spring 2021
Go to - http://catherineyoungwriter.weebly.com/the-crystalline-bed-of-st-peter.html
Listen to a recording on the Podcasts page.
Still Point Arts Quarterly,
(online & print ) Love of Land Issue # 41 Spring 2021
Go to - http://catherineyoungwriter.weebly.com/the-crystalline-bed-of-st-peter.html
Listen to a recording on the Podcasts page.
"In That River I Saw Him Again"
The memoir piece "In That River I Saw Him Again" was selected as a Semifinalist in the Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction:
Hippocampus, November 2020
Go to - https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/11/in-that-river-i-saw-him-again-by-catherine-young/
The memoir piece "In That River I Saw Him Again" was selected as a Semifinalist in the Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction:
Hippocampus, November 2020
Go to - https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/11/in-that-river-i-saw-him-again-by-catherine-young/
Island," Midwest Review (print) Issue 5: 2017
"Island" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Read it here: "Island"
Listen to a recording of Island on the Podcasts page
"Island" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Read it here: "Island"
Listen to a recording of Island on the Podcasts page
"Water Song"
The Driftless Reader (print anthology)
University of Wisconsin Press, 2017
& in About Place (online)
Volume II, Issue III, The Future of Water, December 2013
Go to - https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-future-of-water/work/catherine-young/
Listen to a recording of Water Song on the Podcasts page
The Driftless Reader (print anthology)
University of Wisconsin Press, 2017
& in About Place (online)
Volume II, Issue III, The Future of Water, December 2013
Go to - https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-future-of-water/work/catherine-young/
Listen to a recording of Water Song on the Podcasts page
"Island Voices," Permanent Vacation II
(print anthology) Bona Fide Books, 2018
& in The Island Review (online) May 2017
Listen to a recording of Island Voices on the Podcasts page
Read it here - Island Voices
(print anthology) Bona Fide Books, 2018
& in The Island Review (online) May 2017
Listen to a recording of Island Voices on the Podcasts page
Read it here - Island Voices
"Coal Year," Kestrel (print & online) Issue 37: Spring 2017
"Coal Year" was nominated for Best American Essays
Listen to a recording of Coal Year on the Podcasts page
or read it here: "Coal Year"
"Coal Year" was nominated for Best American Essays
Listen to a recording of Coal Year on the Podcasts page
or read it here: "Coal Year"
"Emerging: January 24,1959,"
Anamesa Journal (print) Fall
Read it here - Emerging
Listen to a recording of Emerging on the Podcasts page
Anamesa Journal (print) Fall
Read it here - Emerging
Listen to a recording of Emerging on the Podcasts page
"Midsommar," Foliate Oak (online) March 2017
Read it here - Midsommar by Catherine Young for Foliate Oak
Listen to a recording of Midsommar on the Podcasts page
Read it here - Midsommar by Catherine Young for Foliate Oak
Listen to a recording of Midsommar on the Podcasts page
"A Cup of Tea," Punctuate, (online) March 2017
Go to - https://blogs.colum.edu/punctuate/?s=A+Cup+of+Tea
Listen to a recording of A Cup of Tea on the Podcasts page
Go to - https://blogs.colum.edu/punctuate/?s=A+Cup+of+Tea
Listen to a recording of A Cup of Tea on the Podcasts page
"Recipe By Heart," Hippocampus (online) September 2016
Read it here - Recipe By Heart
Listen to a recording of Recipe By Heart on the Podcasts page
Read it here - Recipe By Heart
Listen to a recording of Recipe By Heart on the Podcasts page
"Sweet Beginnings,"
"How to Tap a Maple Tree,"
"Maple Popcorn"
Cricket children's literature print magazine) March 2015
Read it here - Sweet Beginnings childen's fiction from Cricket Magazine
Listen to a recording of Sweet Beginnings and an Interview on the Podcasts page
"How to Tap a Maple Tree,"
"Maple Popcorn"
Cricket children's literature print magazine) March 2015
Read it here - Sweet Beginnings childen's fiction from Cricket Magazine
Listen to a recording of Sweet Beginnings and an Interview on the Podcasts page
"Water, Tree, Heart: Mapping the Driftless Area,"
Imagination & Place: Cartography, (print anthology) 2013
Read it here - Water Tree Heart Mapping the Driftless Area 2013 Imagination and Place Cartography
Listen to a recording of Water, Treee, Heart on the Podcasts page
Imagination & Place: Cartography, (print anthology) 2013
Read it here - Water Tree Heart Mapping the Driftless Area 2013 Imagination and Place Cartography
Listen to a recording of Water, Treee, Heart on the Podcasts page
"Rediscovering Intricacy,"
About Place (online) Volume III, Issue II,
Voices of the Human Spirit, November 2013
Go to - https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/voices/section-3/catherine-young-2/
Listen to a recording of Rediscovering Intircacy on the Podcasts page
About Place (online) Volume III, Issue II,
Voices of the Human Spirit, November 2013
Go to - https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/voices/section-3/catherine-young-2/
Listen to a recording of Rediscovering Intircacy on the Podcasts page
"Finding Laura's Wisconsin,"
National Finalist Essay in Little House Big Story Contest
Celebrating 150th Birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder,
Wisconsin State Historical Society, 2017
Read it here: Finding Laura's Wisconsin
National Finalist Essay in Little House Big Story Contest
Celebrating 150th Birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder,
Wisconsin State Historical Society, 2017
Read it here: Finding Laura's Wisconsin
"Nettles, Swans, and May's Green Harvest,"
Edible Madison (online) May 2017
Read it here - Nettles, Wild Swans, and May's Green Harvest by Catherine Young for Edible Madison
Edible Madison (online) May 2017
Read it here - Nettles, Wild Swans, and May's Green Harvest by Catherine Young for Edible Madison
"And Then I Went Back to the Land"
Saltfront (studies in human habit(at) (print) Issue 8: Fall 2019
Read it here - And Then I Went Back to the Land
Saltfront (studies in human habit(at) (print) Issue 8: Fall 2019
Read it here - And Then I Went Back to the Land
"St. Anthony Comes Around,"
Extra Innings (online) Issue #76, February 2016
Go to - St. Anthony Comes Around
Listen to a recording of St. Anthony Comes Around on the Podcasts page
Extra Innings (online) Issue #76, February 2016
Go to - St. Anthony Comes Around
Listen to a recording of St. Anthony Comes Around on the Podcasts page
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Poetry
“Cicuire Endless Turning, Interiors: Songs of Social Disruption Isolation and Interior Spaces Woodland Pattern performance with musical accompaniment by Starwound, 2024
“Meeting At the River,” (print) The A Line Meant Anthology Jaded Ibis Press, 2024
"At First Sight," (print) 2024 Wisconsin Poet’s Calendar 2024, Margins, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.
"April Apology" (online) Imitation Fruit, 2023
"Cider Apples," (print) Barstow & Grand, Issue Six 2022
"Waterways" (online & print) commissioned for "Wisconfluence"
as part of seven-state MidWay Atlas, 2024.
https://www.mdwfair.com/atlas/wisconfluence
"In Answer to Your Question," (print) Farmer-ish 2022
"Effigy Hand by Hopewell Culture 100BC-400AD,"
Lucky Seven Ekphrastic Marathon Anthology, The Ekphrastic Review, 2022
www.catherineyoungwriter.com/effigy-hand.html
“Halloween,” (online & print) Bramble Literary Magazine, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, Issue XVIII, Fall Lucky Seven Ekphrastic Marathon, 2022 https://www.wfop.org/bramble-lit-mag
“Curling Hair While Watching Shindig,” 8142 Review 2021.
Honorable Mention, 2021 Hal Prize, 8142 Review
“In the Antique Mall,” Wisconsin Poet’s Calendar 2021,
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets
“In Dark Times We Gather Light,” Tiny Seed Journal, August 2020
https://tinyseedjournal.com/2020/08/03/in-dark-times-we-gather-light/
“Women Tending,” About Place (online) Volume VI:I, Practices of Hope, May 2020
https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/practices-of-hope/tending-together/catherine-young/
“Art Goes Unbidden" and "Barn Elegiac,"
Contours (print anthology) Driftless Writing Center, 2020
"Gathering Acorns, Hoarding Words"
Cold Mountain Review (online)Spring/Summer 2019
https://www.coldmountainreview.org/issues/spring-summer-2019/gathering-acorns-hoarding-words-by-catherine-young
"Superior" and "Waters Silvered," Common Ground Review (print)Volume 20 Number 2 Fall/Winter 2019
"Stippled Passing" and "A Parallelogram," River Heron (online) 2019
“A Parallelogram” nominated for Pushcart Prize
https://www.riverheronreview.com/issue-21#/catherine-young
"Panoramic," Passager (print) 2019
"July 4" and "Farmer, Janus," Flyway Journal of Writing & Environment (print) 2018
http://flywayjournal.org/poetry/farmer-janus-and-july-4-catherine-young/
"Lost At Sea," Camas (print) 2018
"Relief Line 1960" Wisconsin Chapbook Against Hunger, November 2018
"Firefly Nights," Ascent (online) June 2018
https://readthebestwriting.com/firefly-nights-catherine-young/
"Lighting the Menorah," Cricket (print) November/December Issue 2018
"Boy at the Fair," Perfume River Poetry Review (print & online) Spring 2018
"Stone Circle," Fourth River (print) Spring 2018
"Verdancy" and "Hymenoptera I: Wasps," Reliquiae (online) December 2017
"Minus Forty," Aqueous (print) Volume 12, Issue 2: Fall 2017
"Express Route Madison," (broadside) Madison Metro Buslines Poetry Project 2017
"At a Loss," Minding Nature (online) Volume 10:2 May 2017
https://www.humansandnature.org/at-a-loss
"Mapping the Empty Lot" and "Dear Sara," Freshwater (print) May 2017
"Volute," Wisconsin Review (print) Volume 50.1: Fall 2016
"Smock," Literary Mama (online journal) February 2017
https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2017/02/smock
"Shoreline Instructions for Lake Superior,"
Aqueous (print) Volume 11, Issue 1: Summer 2016
"My Mother Had a Relationship," Feile-Festa, (online) May 2015
https://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v009/poetry/young.html
"Maple Syruping," Fermentation Festival
and Farm Art/Dtour Pass Words (broadside) 2012
Poetry
“Cicuire Endless Turning, Interiors: Songs of Social Disruption Isolation and Interior Spaces Woodland Pattern performance with musical accompaniment by Starwound, 2024
“Meeting At the River,” (print) The A Line Meant Anthology Jaded Ibis Press, 2024
"At First Sight," (print) 2024 Wisconsin Poet’s Calendar 2024, Margins, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.
"April Apology" (online) Imitation Fruit, 2023
"Cider Apples," (print) Barstow & Grand, Issue Six 2022
"Waterways" (online & print) commissioned for "Wisconfluence"
as part of seven-state MidWay Atlas, 2024.
https://www.mdwfair.com/atlas/wisconfluence
"In Answer to Your Question," (print) Farmer-ish 2022
"Effigy Hand by Hopewell Culture 100BC-400AD,"
Lucky Seven Ekphrastic Marathon Anthology, The Ekphrastic Review, 2022
www.catherineyoungwriter.com/effigy-hand.html
“Halloween,” (online & print) Bramble Literary Magazine, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, Issue XVIII, Fall Lucky Seven Ekphrastic Marathon, 2022 https://www.wfop.org/bramble-lit-mag
“Curling Hair While Watching Shindig,” 8142 Review 2021.
Honorable Mention, 2021 Hal Prize, 8142 Review
“In the Antique Mall,” Wisconsin Poet’s Calendar 2021,
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets
“In Dark Times We Gather Light,” Tiny Seed Journal, August 2020
https://tinyseedjournal.com/2020/08/03/in-dark-times-we-gather-light/
“Women Tending,” About Place (online) Volume VI:I, Practices of Hope, May 2020
https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/practices-of-hope/tending-together/catherine-young/
“Art Goes Unbidden" and "Barn Elegiac,"
Contours (print anthology) Driftless Writing Center, 2020
"Gathering Acorns, Hoarding Words"
Cold Mountain Review (online)Spring/Summer 2019
https://www.coldmountainreview.org/issues/spring-summer-2019/gathering-acorns-hoarding-words-by-catherine-young
"Superior" and "Waters Silvered," Common Ground Review (print)Volume 20 Number 2 Fall/Winter 2019
"Stippled Passing" and "A Parallelogram," River Heron (online) 2019
“A Parallelogram” nominated for Pushcart Prize
https://www.riverheronreview.com/issue-21#/catherine-young
"Panoramic," Passager (print) 2019
"July 4" and "Farmer, Janus," Flyway Journal of Writing & Environment (print) 2018
http://flywayjournal.org/poetry/farmer-janus-and-july-4-catherine-young/
"Lost At Sea," Camas (print) 2018
"Relief Line 1960" Wisconsin Chapbook Against Hunger, November 2018
"Firefly Nights," Ascent (online) June 2018
https://readthebestwriting.com/firefly-nights-catherine-young/
"Lighting the Menorah," Cricket (print) November/December Issue 2018
"Boy at the Fair," Perfume River Poetry Review (print & online) Spring 2018
"Stone Circle," Fourth River (print) Spring 2018
"Verdancy" and "Hymenoptera I: Wasps," Reliquiae (online) December 2017
"Minus Forty," Aqueous (print) Volume 12, Issue 2: Fall 2017
"Express Route Madison," (broadside) Madison Metro Buslines Poetry Project 2017
"At a Loss," Minding Nature (online) Volume 10:2 May 2017
https://www.humansandnature.org/at-a-loss
"Mapping the Empty Lot" and "Dear Sara," Freshwater (print) May 2017
"Volute," Wisconsin Review (print) Volume 50.1: Fall 2016
"Smock," Literary Mama (online journal) February 2017
https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2017/02/smock
"Shoreline Instructions for Lake Superior,"
Aqueous (print) Volume 11, Issue 1: Summer 2016
"My Mother Had a Relationship," Feile-Festa, (online) May 2015
https://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v009/poetry/young.html
"Maple Syruping," Fermentation Festival
and Farm Art/Dtour Pass Words (broadside) 2012