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Featured Poetry

Sheila Lynch-Benttinen – I Ramble the Bog

November 23, 2025November 22, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Sheila Lynch-Benttinen revels in all the natural majesty of simply being present with her poem "I Ramble the Bog".

Tagged awareness, being present, environment, nature, nature poem, nature poetry, Poem, poet, Poetry, present, wildernessLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Osteoborg

July 19, 2024July 19, 2024 Vanessa Able

Andrew Nelson's fantastical drawings show us a distant future inhabited by living bone robots that are part-organic and part-machine.

Tagged bones, drawing, dystopia, environment, future, landscape, robots, surrealLeave a comment
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
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

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