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drawing of various types of birds on beige paper

September 17, 2021
There is No One Way to be a Human or a Bird: An Interview with Amie Whittemore
Interviews

August 14, 2021
The Rural Speculative in Verse
Features

trees, with evergreens to the left and trees with yellow leaves to the right

July 2, 2021
Ecology, Ars Poetica, & the Erotic
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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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