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Featured Poetry

Wanda VanderStoop – Chemin Poulin, Qc

March 1, 2026February 28, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

"Chemin Poulin, Qc" by poet Wanda VanderStoop tantalizes the senses with lush earthiness brimming with abundance and life.

Tagged birds, cycles, earth, earthiness, life, Life is beautiful, nature, Olav Hauge, Poem, poet, Poetry, WaterLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Travis Stephens – Spring is the Time of Horses

February 22, 2026February 20, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Californian tugboat captain and poet Travis Stephens smothers readers in the cold grit of resurrection in his "Spring is the Time of Horses".

Tagged earth, earthiness, growth, nature, Olav Hauge, Poem, poet, Poetry, rebirth, rejuvenation, resurrection, spring, springtimeLeave a comment
Weekly Haiku

dewdrops: Summer Week 7

August 21, 2025August 17, 2025 Trent Thomson

Summer Week 7 BY KIMBERLY HALL

Tagged cicada, earth, grass, life, music, Seasonal, summerLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Grant Moser – starings and starvings

February 9, 2025February 7, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Grant Moser's diminutive prose poem "starings and starvings" is disarmingly all-encompassing, a statement that we are alive.

Tagged alive, aliveness, connection, earth, Interconnectedness, life, nature, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Christine Andersen – Forest Bathing

January 21, 2024January 18, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Christine Andersen's poem "Forest Bathing" lusciously invites readers into the slow simple peace of the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku.

Tagged connection, earth, forest, forest bathing, forests, Japan, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, shinrin yoku, slow living, slownessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ellen Girardeau Kempler – Jet Lag

October 15, 2023October 13, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Ellen Girarardeau Kempler's "Jet Lag" places us in the rugged Arizona desert and takes us back into the furthest expanses of geologic time.

Tagged change, earth, geology, history, Poem, poet, Poetry, time, transformation, TravelLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Dimitri Papadopoulos – burgundy and oak

July 23, 2023December 5, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Dimitri Papadopoulos returns us to innocence, nostalgia, and inspiration with his touching poem "burgundy and oak".

Tagged earth, innocence, Inspiration, muses, mythology, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, return, youth1 Comment
Susan Bauer-Wu
Book Bits

The Problem With Business As Usual – On Interconnectedness and the Climate Crisis

June 30, 2023June 30, 2023 Vanessa Able

Inspired by the work of the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Susan Bauer-Wu's book is her personal expression of concern for the earth.

Tagged activism, climate, climate crisis, Dalai Lama, earth, ecology, interbeing1 Comment
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Why I Write: Jenna Wysong Filbrun

May 13, 2023May 13, 2023 Vanessa Able

In the wake of her new collection, Away, we reached out to poet Jenna Wysong Filbrun to find out more about her motivations and process.

Tagged change, connection, earth, faith, Happiness, loss, nature, Poetry, prayer, Reality, Writing2 Comments
David Hinton
Book Bits

What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023 Vanessa Able

David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.

Tagged Chinese philosophy, crisis, earth, earth mother, ecology, environment, Great Vanishing, Original Nature, separation, Sixth Extinction, taosim, wild mindLeave a comment

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