#ecopoetics

[grasshoppergeography]

A new book just came out with our map on the cover. Écopoétiques africaines: Une expérience décoloniale des lieux is available in French and can be ordered through the publisher. We really like this cover, our river basin map of Africa looks amazing on the soft background.

#book release #book cover #geography #maps #my art #ecopoetics #ecopoetry #africa

[tribalephemeral]

Acknowledgement to Juliana Spahr for her book "Well Then There Now"

Some notes on where the names We all the small ones and Demonoid Picotent came from and also stylistic influences on Synaptic Syntactic In retrospect, I probably should have included Juliana Spahr in the dedication or done acknowledgements in my 2017 book Synaptic Syntactic, since the style of some of the poems was significantly shaped by re-readings of the poems (but not the prose) therein. And…

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#academia #alta vista #alta vista world #assemblage #demonoid #ecopoetics #google translate #influences #inspiration #juliana spahr #machine translation #meghan o&039;rourke #once #we all the small ones #well then there now #world

[atompowers]

5 Mary Oliver Poems That Will Make You Fall in Love with the Earth Again

#earthmonth earthday2023 earthday earthdayeveryday nationalpoetrymonth poem poetry poetrylovers nature environment climate ecopoetics

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

The nihilism you encounter in academia regarding capitalist alternatives is so fucking infuriating like you'll be reading an article about the "Ecopoetics of the Decolonized Future" or whatever the fuck and the author will repeatedly go "we must continue to work towards building radical alternatives even if we have no idea what it will look like" and it's like. We do. There's literally working alternatives right now you just have dismissed them or are ignoring them completely because you're still clinging to the fiction you live in the best of all possible societies even as you condemn it.

[garadinervi]

Rewilding: An Ecopoetic Anthology, Crested Tit Collective, [London], 2020

#graphic design #art #poetry #book #cover #book cover #crested tit collective #2020s

[insaneclownpussi]

damn reading donna haraway for my ecopoetics and now i get why all my friends in undergrad fuck w her

[ashtrayfloors]

99. Do you think Frank O'Hara was somewhere reading from Lunch Poems when some Black students were attacked for sitting at a Woolworth's lunch counter?

100. How about two actors play LeRoi Jones and Amiri Baraka discussing anti-Semitism in an episode of a less comedic season of poetic history set in the 1960s?

101. Is it possible to think of anything in the 1950s without thinking of the murder of Emmett Till in 1955?

102. Does Emmett Till or Rosa Parks trigger the Civil Rights Movement?

103. Did you know President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in the same year James Baldwin published The Fire Next Time?

104. What would constitute a perfect poem for you?

105. Who kept loving Sylvia Plath and Jimi Hendrix after high school, college, and middle age?

106. Who, in general, lives longer, painters or poets?

107. What is Time?

108. What are (your) ecopoetics?

109. Did you know Lucille Clifton went to Howard University with Amiri Baraka when he was known as LeRoi Jones?

110. If the poet representative of the last American century is, like the century, a mess of experiments, contradictions, and conviction, isn't Baraka a pretty good representative poet?

111. How about a vision of the American poet starring a mother (Lucille Clifton) who writes poems while raising her six children in Maryland in the 1970s?

112. Can you believe that Baraka's 1968 anthology of Afro-American writing, Black Fire, featured essays by John Henrik Clarke and Harold Cruse and poems by Sun Ra, David Henderson, A.B. Spellman, Sonia Sanchez, Henry Dumas, Jay Wright, Stanley Crouch, Lorenzo Thomas, and Victor Hernández Cruz, but did not include poems by Lucille Clifton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Bob Kaufman, Etheridge Knight, or Audre Lorde?

113. What do you think of Audre Lorde's "Power"?

114. Have you ever read "Those Winter Sundays" and wondered what happened to the mother in the poem?

115. Have you ever met anyone familiar with the poems of Allen Ginsberg's father, Louis Ginsberg?

116. If you write a poem like "Howl," do you really need to write anything else?

117. Is "Howl" an example of a poem that actually changed things?

118. When you write a poem, what does it teach you about the past?

119. Did you know Ginsberg reads the entirety of his poem "When the Light Appears" in the song "When the Light Appears Boy" on the album When I Was Born for the 7th Time, released by Cornershop in 1997, the year of Ginsberg's death?

120. Did you know that was his voice on "Ghetto Defendant" by The Clash ("Starved in metropolis / Hooked on necropolis / Addict of metropolis / Do the worm on acropolis / Slamdance the cosmopolis / Enlighten the populace...") ?

121. Do you sort of think of the Beat poets in the same way you think of the Grateful Dead, with members wandering around like several hairy, high Walt Whitmans?

122. Couldn't we debate whether Robert Lowell or Ginsberg is more confessional?

123. Is it true Bob Kaufman took a vow of silence to protest the Vietnam War?

124. Who brings more intimacy and toughness to poetry than Lucille Clifton?

125. What if every day you ask poetry of yourself?

—Terrance Hayes, from "Twentieth Century Examination Part V" (Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry, Penguin Books, 2023)

#excerpts #terrance hayes #questions #on poetry #poetics #twentieth century #watch your language #recently read

[tsunflowers]

ok imagine it's the future and the antarctica has melted so bad that there's actual dirt and rocks down there now. some people who called themselves "ecopoets" were like "sucks that this happened and a bunch of other places on earth also got ruined but this is a chance to make a new biome where everything is bioengineered to adapt to these changes" and then some other people who were capitalists were like "oh hell yeah we can do mining down here" and the capitalists won. that's the premise of austral by paul mcauley

basically this woman kidnaps a teenager and travels all over antarctica with her bc she doesn't want her crime boss boyfriend to get her or the teen. they run into all the different types of people living on the continent and get shot at a lot. also there are domesticated mammoths. it felt to me like it was trying to be a high-stakes action movie of a book and an intellectual treatise on the nature of survival at the same time and those two things did not mesh well. so I don't think I would necessarily recommend it. but the amount of concentration and brainpower I needed to read it was perfect for 11 pm

#my book review corner

[villanele]

something something mitski and hozier ecopoetics something something

#it is interesting to me. and also annoying that everyone��s just like omg new crying music! l

[anniekoh]

Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters by Petra Kuppers (2022)

In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in a shared sociocultural world. Reading contemporary performance encounters and artful engagements, this book models a disability culture sensitivity to living in a shared world, oriented toward more socially just futures. Eco soma methods mix and merge realities on the edges of lived experience and site-specific performance. Kuppers invites us to become moths, sprout gills, listen to our heart’s drum, and take starships into crip time. And fantasy is central to these engagements: feeling/sensing monsters, catastrophes, golden lines, heartbeats, injured sharks, dotted salamanders, kissing mammoths, and more. Kuppers illuminates ecopoetic disability culture perspectives, contending that disabled people and their co-conspirators make art to live in a changing world, in contact with feminist, queer, trans, racialized, and Indigenous art projects. By offering new ways to think, frame, and feel “environments,” Kuppers focuses on art-based methods of envisioning change and argues that disability can offer imaginative ways toward living well and with agency in change, unrest, and challenge.

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Via Strange Horizons interview:

Petra:  That's an excellent question. I grew up within a dominantly white German environment influenced by an awareness of genocide, by the heritage and presence of racist violence. There have always been non-white people in the Olimpias, but it still is a white-centered framework. Our axes of difference lay with our experiences regarding psychiatric institutions, incarceration, and class.

Readers, You can find Petra’s books at your favorite bookseller, online or local, including foundational texts like Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction. She has a queercrip short story collection, Ice Bar (2018), and her most recent poetry collection, Gut Botany, was on the New York Public Library's "Best Books of 2020." Her most recent performance book, Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters, is available as an economically just open book access here. You can find more out about Petra's work at her website, www.petrakuppers.com.

#to read #speculative fiction #disability

[stuartelden]

Steve Mentz, Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels - Fordham University Press, April 2024, and New Books discussion

Steve Mentz, Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels – Fordham University Press, 2024; foreword by Suzanne Conklin Akbari. There is a New Books discussion with John Yargo here. Navigate the Depths of a Timeless Classic, Reimagined.Come sail with I.We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiarcourse. This time, the Pequod’s American voyage steers its course acrossthe…

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[sttarttsar]

the ballad of your local fly

Mammoth mammal mmm good one My knees tremble you in the caress in the moment as Tender spring breeze come. I am a wild animal in a zoo on the escapade For a search in true peace and the moment I Set my eye on you Know this journey will end, after an eon of dark and light. Bonfire traditions will bring the truth unlike you A proud male of no bounds to truth; it is a concept Who knows of a truth, truly? A “truth of us in the flesh” and yet I don’t know tomorrow. My my mister miss whoever may you be God blessing a stork illegal to bring a fresh being to the world On one faithful morning Even before conception, the stars were aligned; You. Bright How bright Deafening Shining A celestial body An ecopoetic kettle-black soul The bird stripped of its wings And the viscous fluidity of your blue skin Stick again to me It deafens me Deathly How deathly you are. And of that, how good it must be to die truly An oblivion with you calls death Heaven-send.

#poetry

[whimsy-wallfish]

currently reading ; red ocher

author ; jessica poli

blurb ; Finalist, 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize In Jessica Poli’s Red Ocher , the wild mortality of the natural world merges with melancholic expressions of romantic a lamb runt dies in the night, a first-time lover inflicts casual cruelties, brussels sprouts rot in a field, love goes quietly and unbearably unrequited. This is an ecopoetics that explores the cyclical natures of love and grief, mindful that “there will be room for desire / again, even after it leaves / like a flood receding, / the damaged farmhouses / and washed-away bridges / lying scattered the next day / amid silt and debris.” Throughout, Poli’s poems hold space for the sacred—finding it in woods overgrown with thorny weeds, in drunken joy rides down rural roads, and in the red ocher barns that haunt the author’s physical and emotional landscapes.

what drew me in ; one particular poem i saw posted on tumblr, the one about the lamb.

#poetry #poem #bookblr #bookish #books #currently reading

[sorchanitua]

Northwestern University Assistant Professorship English in Environmental Literatures & the Environmental Humanities

Deadline: November 6 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “Possible areas of specialization might include environmental racism and justice, human and nonhuman relations, the literature of climate crisis, catastrophe studies, ecopoetics, or the energy…

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[ecopoetry4teachers]

Teaching Current Events in the Classroom Through Ecopoetry

Last week, my students spent time viewing weather reports, watching projections and talking about Hurricane Lee. After gauging their interest in the hurricane, I decided to use short lessons that allowed them to steer the conversation. They used their experience with post tropical storm Fiona in 2022 to engage in the daily lessons. Most of my students are not yet 10, but their conversations and insights told me it is an area of interest, or perhaps concern, for them.  What can Adora Svitak teach us?

I have always felt it was important to teach current issues in an age appropriate manner. I believe students are curious about their world and want to know more about it. As a parent, I want to shelter my children from some of the harsh realities, but I also know the importance of teaching them the truth. Young educational activist Adora Svitak said:

"By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events."

Adora Svitak https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/adora_svitak_594720

Adora Svitak and Paulo Freire: What is the connection?

This young activist reminds me of Paulo Freire. Freire believed that teaching adult learners to read would help them see their own oppression. This knowledge could then transform their lives through action. Teaching current events in the classroom, can do the same. Elizabeth Lange, in her 2023 book Transformative Sustainability Education, stated that Freire’s:

"literacy process was called conscientization as adult learners become conscious of the root causes of their oppression and then took collective action to improve their lives" (Lange, 2023, pg. 76). 

This is similar to Svitak's belief that children need to understand current events, so they can begin their work toward change. To learn more about Paulo Freire’s theory of education, watch the following video.

An informative academic article regarding Freire's transformative learning theory can be found here:

The Ecopoetry Connection

One major current issue that faces children globally is climate change. Extreme weather events, loss of ecosystems, endangered species and species at risk, pollution, environmental disasters or social system failures are all partly the result of climate change. We need look no further than Great Thunberg to see how these issues are affecting children and young adults. Her global climate strike has mobilized millions of students throughout the world. My own students have hosted small rallies outside our school as a way to tell adults they want change. Youth do have the intelligence, willingness and creativity to take action against climate change. Young spoken word poet, Amanda Gorman, gives us a glimpse as to what youth can do:

Black eco-poets, such as Frank X Walter use their experience with oppression and resilience in his poems. Contemporary eco-poets are using their word to teach about environmental impacts to our natural world. Below is Walter's poem Love Letter to the World.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/8-black-eco-poets-who-inspire-us#:~:text=%E2%80%9CEco%2Dpoetics%E2%80%9D%20%20may%20be,finding%20home%20away%20from%20home.

Edinburgh Napier University Professor Sam Illingworth states that ecopoet Elise Paschen, uses her poem The Tree Agreement, to

"promote the idea of the agency people possess in protecting and preserving their local environment. These poems discuss neighborhood resistance to tree felling and challenge our need to make a mark on the world."

Eco-poetry is more than poetry about the environment. It tells a story that is meant to expand the reader's thinking and make connections between humankind and the litany of social issues that surround their lives. As Eleanor Flowerday (2021) states,

“Eco-poetry roots you in your environment both physically but also in the way we tell stories to one another. It provides that line of connection to your surroundings that is so necessary in founding a relationship with the natural world: that feeling that you actually belong there.”

As an educator, I believe eco-poetry has a role to play in helping to transform the global climate crisis. Eco-poetry has a place in every language arts curriculum because the climate crisis effects everyone. The poets, educators and activists discussed in this blog are just a few in the every growing list of climate change activists.

Reference List

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ImsBe97u3DMtBAbB4hj3N9Rt8ASKcpEYfYP6JJPUhZQ/edit

#ecofriendly #eco conscious #poetry #eco-poetry #environmental #teaching #eco-poetryin theclassroom #radical poetry #paulo freire #adora svatik #naturalistweekly #poetryfoundation #sierraclub #worlwildlife #Youtube

[writepublishpoetry]

Online Journals

Popular online literary journals

Cordite

http://cordite.org.au/

Online since 2001, Cordite is a quarterly journal that publishes contemporary poetry from Australia and overseas, as well as translations, interviews, critical essays, and scholarly articles. Cordite is funded by the Australia Council, and also publishes poetry books in print form.

foam:e

https://foame.org

foam:e is a journal of Australian poetry started in 2001, that appears once a year. It accepts submissions from September to November, and publishes in March of the following year. Each issue is usually made up of free verse, prose poetry, or experimental ‘language’ poetry.

Mascara

https://www.mascarareview.com/

Mascara is a bi-annual literary journal started in 2007, funded by the Australia Council. It publishes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, interviews and essays, and has an interest in promoting the work of ‘subaltern’ or marginalised voices.

Meniscus

https://meniscus.org.au/

Meniscus is a bi-annual literary journal active since 2013. It is published by the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, and contains submissions from around the world. Unlike other online journals, it is produced in a traditional magazine layout, and is available to download as a pdf file.

Stylus Lit

http://styluslit.com/

StylusLit is a bi-annual literary journal that has been online since 2017. It is published in March and September, and contains poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction, interviews and reviews. It welcomes submissions from Australia and overseas.

Special interest journals

#EnbyLife — Journal for Non-Binary & Gender Diverse Creatives

https://enbylife.net/

#EnbyLife was started in 2016 by the non-binary Brisbane poet Rae White. It includes poetry, visual poetry, spoken word, short stories, reviews, and essays. Its website posts work in a blogging format, and accepts work from ‘non-binary and gender diverse’ writers from around the world.

Peril — Asian-Australian Arts and Culture

https://peril.com.au/

Active since 2006, Peril is a quarterly that focuses on Asian Australian arts and culture. It is funded by the Australia Council and in partnership with the Asian Australian Democracy Caucus. Submissions are open to writers from all backgrounds, as long as they critically engage with the issues of Asian Australia.

Plumwood Mountain — Australian and International Journal of Ecopoetry & Ecopoetics

https://plumwoodmountain.com

Founded in 2014, Plumwood Mountain is published twice a year. It focuses on work responding to the environment and environmental issues. It contains poetry, book reviews, essays, interviews, and multimedia galleries featuring artists, photographers, and environmental activists.

Voiceworks — Australians under the age of 25

https://www.voiceworksmag.com.au/

First launched as a newsletter in 1985, Voiceworks has grown into a quarterly print and online literary journal. It is published by the youth organization Express Media, and produced by and for people under 25. Its boldly designed website contains fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and comics.