Incarnation and Reclamation
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Lambflesh by Caroline Shea. Kelsay Books, 2019. 59 pages. $16. In the title poem of Caroline Shea’s Lambflesh, the speaker says “I am a...
Two Poems
by“Why We Need Ponds” To break the monotony of crops we need ponds to be, on our home places, the eyes that never close…
The Purple Hour
byThese photographs by Joanna Marshall belong to a larger project called “On Highway AA: Living with a Sense of Place.” During the winter and spring…
Tree Meditation
byThis wide, aged dogwood blooms with the ivory of old teeth. Last year, a flock of cedar waxwings vanished among new leaves and fading…
Running Side By Side
byIn her Oct. 9, 2019 essay in The Paris Review, Naja Marie Aidt writes of how poetry and language make it possible to understand…
The Language of God
byHow can people maintain their faith when the world is increasingly secular and known through science? That is the central question Roger Haight seeks…
When I Stand Beneath The Stars
byAfter “When I Am Among the Trees” by Mary Oliver When I stand beneath the stars North, Dog, Scorpio, the Dippers even Venus and…
What The Living Know
byIn this interview, Hope Fischbach and Randyl Music speak with Lauren K. Alleyne about the many meanings of home, immigrant identity, body/spirit duality, and…
Where Receptors Are Missing
byThe French philosopher Gaston Bachelard wrote that human experience of the home is a primarily imaginative experience and that by dwelling in a place,…
Listening to Trees, Tides and Song in the Anthropocene
by“Seems the only thing saving me / these days is trees,” writes Marjorie Moorhead in her debut chapbook Survival: Trees, Tides, Song (FLP, 2019)….
Poem Like A Miracle
byA conversation and peer review of Rosebud Ben-Oni’s turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019) by Tom Snarsky and Jo Ianni. TS: In…
Wilderness, Softness and Resistance
byI started reading Advantages of Being Evergreen at my fiance’s therapy appointment—train horns blared for the hour it took me to read it, yet…
New Fiction & Nonfiction Editors
byETR is delighted to welcome two new editors to our incredible editorial team: Julie Wan and Manik Perera! Julie, our Nonfiction Editor, earned her…
Empire of Smoke
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Our interviews editor Esteban Rodriguez talks with poet Alfredo Aguilar about capitalistic world building, climate catastrophe, poetic process, and his most recent collection, What...
Tomorrow Tanka
byYesterday, I looked back, shaving. A moth crawled through the fog of my face in the mirror. An open window unmakes a wall, the…
Strange Forms
byThe Ecotheo Review is pleased to feature several selections by visual artist Darrell Black. Throughout his work, Black aims to explore “the unique wonderland…
The Quiet Is Winnowing Us
byThe Quiet is Winnowing Us The quiet is winnowing what does not belong, exposing the hidden so we can see it, see it for…
Ice Bone
byThe EcoTheo Review is delighted to feature three visual images by Judith Skillman, a poet, editor, and artist from Syracuse, New York. In her…
A Simple Biography
byThat last book caused me more tears than I knew I had in me. The trees turn gold with mystery, although science can explain…
We Are Appalachia
by“I am Appalachia… How can you find rapport with me— You, who never stood in the bowels of hell, Never felt a mountain shake…