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Featured Poetry

Kurtis Ebeling – Snowmelt

May 1, 2022April 28, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

With the quietude of the rising sun and melting snow, Kurtis Ebeling's "Snowmelt" serves as an ode to springtime and a requiem to winter.

Tagged environment, growth, healing, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, rejuvenation, restoration, spring, winter, wintertime, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Mark Hammerschick – Permafrostedness Rising

April 24, 2022April 21, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

"Permafrostedness Rising" is a tragic poem written from the perspective of native arctic people, detailing a world altered by climate change.

Tagged climate, climate change, environment, global warming, landscape, loss, nature, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Katie Jones – Morning

March 20, 2022March 18, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

A fresh, new, and powerful voice in poetry, Katie Jones offers a morning poem, awakening on a very human world desperately imposing itself on natural orders.

Tagged civilization, constructs, ecology, environment, humanity, morning, Morning Poem, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, sunLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Carolyn Decker – An Approximation

December 19, 2021December 18, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

An Approximation, by Rhode Island scientist and poet Carolyn Decker, is an ode to the interconnectedness of everything and a clarion call for wisdom in a world of desires.

Tagged ecology, environment, Interconnectedness, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, science, Science and Religion, WisdomLeave a comment
Book Bits

Outer and Inner Ecologies: Activist Satish Kumar on the Importance of Seeing Our Own Divinity

November 3, 2021November 3, 2021 Vanessa Able

If we cannot see the fact of our own divinity and nurture that most immediate light, we can break down and burn out before we are able to effect any change.

Tagged Bhagavad Gita, ecology, environment, gandhi, Hinduism, pacifism, self-careLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lily Jarman-Reisch – Camino Real

August 22, 2021August 27, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In Camino Real, Lily Jarman-Reisch details a road trip in the exhausted American West, from the Pacific Coast.

Tagged america, desert, environment, expectation, industrialism, loss, Pacific, Poem, Poetry, Reality, Roadtrip, Travel1 Comment
Nancy Holt
Artworks

Nancy Holt’s Mystifying Sun Tunnels in the Great Basin Desert

August 20, 2021August 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels in the Great Basin Desert in Utah are four 18-foot long concrete tubes arranged in an X-formation and aligned with the movements of the sun.

Tagged art, ecology, environment, land art, landscape, nature, women in artLeave a comment
WG Sebald
Book Bits

‘A Heart Slowly Reduced to Embers’: W. G. Sebald on the Fires That Burn Inside and Outside

August 6, 2021August 9, 2021 Vanessa Able

"From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin wane and when it will fade away."

Tagged ecology, environment, Fire, forests, memory, nature writing, pilgrimageLeave a comment
Gary Snyder
Poetry

Gary Snyder – For the Children

July 1, 2021June 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

Gary Snyder's poem on the healing and enlightenment we need to find as a race in order to once again locate ourselves in earth's valleys and pastures.

Tagged ecology, environment, flowers, hope, nature, togetherness2 Comments
Kathleen Dean Moore
Interview, Why I Write

Why I Write – A Conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore

May 4, 2021June 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Author and activist Kathleen Dean Moore on what inspires her, what drives her, and her struggle to write about hope.

Tagged activism, conversation, earth, ecology, environment, interview, music, philosophy, sound, WritingLeave a comment

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