poets for living waters
Poets for Living Waters Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico begun on April 20, 2010, one of the most profound...
Category: Ecopoetics
flights of fancy
DOUGLAS OLIVER / THE HERON (In memoriam: 1937-2000) ecopoetics 1 I like this poem very much. At first reading, I felt an old-fashionedness about it, that caused resistance. I would call it Romantic. Looking...
slipping
Tom Morgan, “V.” from “Slip and Field” ecopoetics volume 1 page 83 Coincidence – I have a copy of “Slip and Field.” I picked it up for $5 in Left Hand Books in Boulder...
the we in weather
NICK LAWRENCE / BEYOND CAN BE OUR MODEL Lisa Robertson. The Weather. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2001. Ecopoetics 1 What are you trying to say? I often ask this about poems, but I don’t...
the ungatherable
Peter Larkin Coronation Spinney ecopoetics 1, p 74 audio here There is an initial resistance to reading something that I don’t immediately understand. I don’t want to stay with it. There are a lot...
hypothetical post*
Robert Kocik from Overcoming Fitness ecopoetics journal, pp 62 – 74 Imagination. I would like to find out more about imagination. Stephen Batchelor has one chapter about Imagination in “Buddhism without Beliefs.” Other than...
how indeed
How can the bird, the fly-catcher, enter the poem without having to do work for the sentimentally needy poet? Joan Retallack, Jacket 32, What is Experimental Poetry and why do we need it? Gotta...