Listening to Trees, Tides and Song in the Anthropocene
“Seems the only thing saving me / these days is trees,” writes Marjorie Moorhead in her debut chapbook Survival: Trees, Tides, Song (FLP, 2019)….
Attention To A Shared, Burning World
Reading M. Stone’s limited-edition chapbook In Wildness and Knox Gardner’s full-length, collaborative art text Woodland alongside each other recalled for me Georgia O’Keeffe’s profound...
Belonging To The Environment
Rosarium (Acre Books, 2018) by Hannah Dow “What Is the Body,” the first poem in Hannah Dow’s debut Rosarium, both asks and suggests: if...
In The Waking Green Undergrass
Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air (Parlor Press, 2019) by Elizabeth Jacobson Winner of the 2017 New Measure Poetry Prize...
Environment And Ritual
The Gathering Song (Finishing Line Press, 2018) by Christina Xiong “The land spirits are exhausted and starving,” writes Christina Xiong in her debut poetry…
Seeds & Seasons
Anemochory (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2016) and Season of Dares (Bull City Press, 2018) by Leah Silvieus Leah Silvieus’s first chapbook, Anemochory, takes its title…
Sacred Time
A Review of The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon) by Jenny George The Dream of Reason’s opening poem, “Origins of Violence,” recounts a narrative…
Two Poems
Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds after Dali Say table, and I’ll say bread. Say cup and I’ll say wine and spoon. The…