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Tag: transition

Holly Allen
Featured Poetry

Holly Allen – Michigan Green

September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 Vanessa Able

Holly Allen's poem Michigan Green recalls the summers spent in Michigan with her great-grandmother.

Tagged childhood, disillusion, learning, nature, transition, wonderLeave a comment
Jennifer Hollis
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Jennifer Hollis – Baby Boy Hollis

July 26, 2020August 3, 2020 Vanessa Able

Jennifer Hollis' poem sits on the threshold of motherhood, at the moment of transition when the personal and intimately known is sent out into a world keen to lay claim to it with a designation.

Tagged childbirth, definition, language, motherhood, naming, transition1 Comment
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Book Bits

To Name and Describe, You Must First See

July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 Vanessa Able

Writer and botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's book Braiding Sweetgrass is a call to awakening to ecological consciousness and an awareness of our interconnectedness with nature.

Tagged change, consciousness, ecology, Extinction, language, loss, Native American, nature, science, transitionLeave a comment
Clifford Venho
Featured, Featured Poetry

Clifford Venho – Forest of the Unsung

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 Vanessa Able

Clifford Venho's Forest of the Unsung, marks the magical transition in a rich and dark forest setting from night into a day that is like 'a book waiting to be read.' 

Tagged awareness, dawn, forest, music, night, transcendence, transitionLeave a comment
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