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Isaiah Janisch’s poem MASTODON was inspired by the piece mastodon skin and hair sample that was discovered near Milwaukee Wisconsin in the 1980.

The loss of the farm is one story of a family’s history in Kate Maude’s poem Around 1960 My Grandfather Lost the Farm.

Ice fishing requires a lot of waiting in Joseph Radke’s poem ICE FISHERMEN OF OCONTO FALLS.

Liz Rhodebeck describes her favorite kind of winter — a strong one — in her poem MINUS TEN DEGREES OF BLISS.

The poem is named for the place: FOND DU LAC by Paula Sergi.

2 poems to celebrate Wisconsin outdoors in the long slow month of January, day or night: a poem from Kate Maude, JANUARY IN LITTLE PLUM and a poem from Deb Johnson, NIGHT GAME

Taste and place are part of the FOREST INFUSION by Joe Scheder.

In WINTER SONG by Paula Sergi water becomes magical in winter.

FARMING IN LESS AND INTERMITTENT COLD by Kelly R Samuels considers letting go of place through aging and climate change.

With echoes of Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, TWO BOULDERS IN REPOSE by Stan Winarski