Grasshopper cracking is metabolic cactus spine drama. Yet chance operation goes completely neglected by pundits of nature. Why? Fusty neo-Victorian beliefs concerning the person? Fear our little house on the prairie has nobody home?...
ANDREW SCHELLING / A BIOREGIONAL POETRY CLASS AT NAROPA ecopoetics 1 In 1997 I received a Nathan Cummings Contemplative Fellowship … to design and teach at The Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) an undergraduate...
JULIE PATTON / SLUG ART ecopoetics 1 I’m reading Why This World, a Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser. One of the main themes of the book is Clarice’s search for God in...
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...
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...
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...
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...