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Between teaching environmental studies and yoga, Ann Fisher-Wirth finds time to write some of the most compelling modern environmental poetry around.

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Maria Melendez Kelson: Inspired By Wildness, Connections To Nature

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A wildlife biology major in college, poet Maria Melendez Kelson continues to be inspired by wildness in human nature & human connections to wild nature.

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Naomi Thiers: Poeticizing Humans’ Connection to the Land

Ethan Goffman California, Naomi Thiers, poet, poetry, poetry-and-planet

Naomi Thiers is author of Only The Raw Hands Are Heaven, She Was a Cathedral and In Yolo County.

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Lalita Noronha: Fresh Perspectives on Life & Nature in America

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Author and poet Lalita Noronha, who emigrated to the U.S. from India at age 23, gives fresh perspectives on life and nature in the United States.

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Emmy Perez: Poetry of the Borderlands

Ethan Goffman Emmy Perez, poet, poetry-and-planet

Emmy Pérez is the 2020 Texas Poet Laureate and the author of two books, With the River on Our Face and Solstice, and often addresses environmental topics.

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Lucille Lang Day: Leveraging Poetry For Environmental Causes

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Environmental poet Lucille Lang Day has published ten books of poetry, including Infinities, which moves from the birth of the universe to inner space.