Policy Guru Gus Speth Uses Poetry to Voice Climate Concerns
Gus Speth, founder of the World Resources Institute and a long-time environmental policy guru, has now turned to poetry…
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Alan Britt’s Paradoxical Perspective On Gardens, Birds, Cats & Dogs
Poet Alan Britt lends his paradoxical and metaphysical poetic perspective to subjects like gardens, birds, cats and dogs.
Jane Hirshfield: Fighting for Science and Climate in Poetry
The poems of Jane Hirshfield have long combined engagement with nature, science, and a concern for social justice.
Born With Song: Wang Ping Spreads Art, Poetry & Kinship From The Mississippi To The Yangtze
Born with Song: Wang Ping Spreads Art, Poetry, and Kinship from the Mississippi to the Yangtze.
Ann Fisher-Wirth Enchants With Environmental Studies In Verse
Between teaching environmental studies and yoga, Ann Fisher-Wirth finds time to write some of the most compelling modern environmental poetry around.
Maria Melendez Kelson: Inspired By Wildness, Connections To Nature
A wildlife biology major in college, poet Maria Melendez Kelson continues to be inspired by wildness in human nature & human connections to wild nature.
Naomi Thiers: Poeticizing Humans’ Connection to the Land
Naomi Thiers is author of Only The Raw Hands Are Heaven, She Was a Cathedral and In Yolo County.
Lalita Noronha: Fresh Perspectives on Life & Nature in America
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.
Emmy Perez: Poetry of the Borderlands
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.
Lucille Lang Day: Leveraging Poetry For Environmental Causes
Environmental poet Lucille Lang Day has published ten books of poetry, including Infinities, which moves from the birth of the universe to inner space.
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