Unwinding Underground: A Review of Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s Rain in Plural
byRain in Plural by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Princeton University Press, 2020. 105 pages. $17.95. The multiple layers and the angles of Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s fourth collection…
from The Rain Heron
byA FARMER LIVED, but not well. If she planted grain, it would not sprout. If she grew rice, it would rot. If she tried…
Glory and Her Gourd
byHow do I deserve a bumblebee in my squash flower? Honey-bearers—endangered—orchestrate through pheromones and dance. And what of this squash flower? How can I believe Adam came first…
Unsettling the West: a Review of Joanna Pocock’s Surrender: The Call of the American West
byJoanna Pocock’s eco-memoir Surrender opens with rhythm, specifically the rhythm of the human lifecycle: mundane repetitions leading to ennui, and the dreaded advent of…
A Sacramental Understanding of the Earth
byWe had the pleasure of speaking with Pádraig Ó Tuama just as Season 2 of his On Being podcast, Poetry Unbound, began. In addition…
A Prayer
byEmpty me unto thee, O Mercy, O Beginning, Port of Terror, Port of Morning.All my words pour on you, my heart in them, In…
Wild Hope and the Wilderness of Lent
bySeveral years ago, I came upon Sandra Critelli’s stunning photograph of migrating cownose stingrays appearing as an intricate pattern of yellow, tan, and green…
Winter Weather
byI used to walk a trail in the dunes near Provincetown with my pockets full of birdseed. I liked the zip of the chickadees’ scratchy feet…
A Gift on Offer to Us All: A Review of World of Wonders
byIt is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and we are inside a moment of grand disconnection. Even if it were not for the pandemic,…
Circle of Love (The Christmas Story)
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The First Leaf to Fall
byYou might kneel to the ground to focus your imagination on it only to find your own story from bud to leaf and in…
What Survives: A Review of Jorie Graham’s Runaway
byJorie Graham hears a buzzing we can’t. At the UK launch for her newest collection of poetry, Runaway, the poet walks out of the…
Audacity: A Conversation Between Geoffrey Gatza and H. L. Hix
byGeoffrey Gatza, The Albatross Around the Neck of Albert Ross: Strange Stories for Wild Children (Lavender Ink Press, 2020) H. L. Hix, The Gospel…
10 Ways to Stop Hungering for More
by1. Go outside and look at the clouds. What shapes do you see? Do not write them down.2. Open your door and step outside,…
Troubled Cord, Shifted Frequencies: A Review of The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons
byIt is impossible to read Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers’ The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons at this time without thinking directly of the multiple…
I’m having dinner with a crow
byWhat I mean is, I have walked far enough into the woods to forget my own feet. I am barefoot. The snow is cold….
When the Taking Is Holy: A Review of Hannah Larrabee’s Wonder Tissue
byWonder Tissue is Hannah Larrabee’s debut poetry collection, and the winner of the Airlie Prize. The book is organized into two hemispheres of the…
Summer in the Fields
byWhen Davis and I began preparations to leave California—moving out of our apartment, putting furniture in storage—we told our friends and family that we…
Slash & Burn
byFir trees shake their skirts, freetheir perfume of sharp summer musk. So much is certain: the dry rasp of wildfire plumes,the cicadas climbing from…
Pandemic Sabbath
byWhat could be more useless than walking a labyrinth? Just a lot of turns and backtracking, taking up my valuable time. I like to…