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paper boat on water

May 15, 2021
Seeking Joy
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sunflower bouquet in a vase against a newspaper background

April 17, 2021
“Grief Scatters”: The Poetics of Loss Without Elegy
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brown cattails in the foreground of a natural landscape featuring a river and rolling hills

February 27, 2021
Placing Queerness in the Natural World: Minnie Bruce Pratt’s "Crime Against Nature"
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December 21, 2020
Finding Strength in "The Bull-Jean Stories"
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A person holds their pointer finger up to their lips as if to shush someone. Greyscale.

September 25, 2020
In Praise of Silence: Camille Dungy’s “Language”
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September 2, 2020
Towards Being Together: To Those Who Were Our First Gods
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radioactive sign in front of a field

August 7, 2020
Slow Violence & Nuclear Poems
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May 29, 2020
Uncertainty, Disaster, & Hope in "Don't Let Me Be Lonely"
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mural of a mermaid on a blue building

April 24, 2020
Questions of Sustainability, Potable Water, and Swimmer Poetics
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Abandoned bumper cars covered in greenery at Chernobyl

March 27, 2020
Nuclear Syntax: Atkinson & Chernobyl
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January 27, 2020
On "Mississippi" by Ann Fisher-Wirth & Maude Schuyler Clay
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October 30, 2019
Climate Change, Power, and Poetry
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October 3, 2019
Place, Time, & Aloneness: Meditating on Two Poems and Autumn’s Arrival
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April 22, 2019
Diving into "Deep Water Trawling"
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December 6, 2018
Contemporary Odes to the Mundane
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