Virginia

Michael Dhyne
I remember when she told me I'd find love again even though she might not. Just imagine you're moving toward it.
from the book Afterlife / University of Wisconsin Press

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In Ecopoetry Now, invited poets engage in an ecopoetic conversation across borders. In poems and poetics statements, their work describes important local differences, including bioregion and language, as well as a shared concern for the Earth. We hope to highlight poetry’s integral role in creating and sustaining a broadly ecological imagination that is most alive when biologically, culturally, and linguistically diverse.

Daniela Danz on "Come wilderness into our homes"
Photo: Daniela Danz
Leila Chatti
My future holds no promise of green. The wind in the tree a negative thing.
Rae Gouirand
There are two ways a horse can run: from accord, and from will. One is the way a living thing runs.
Daniela Danz (translated from the German by Monika Cassel)
break the windows come with your roots and your worms spread yourself over our wishes...
Shaina Phenix
& denim, more Black people get held in you than they do in a church house & I mean that with God & with love
Courtney Bush
that one day I would turn around and see lined up all the things I had done in order to survive and think what's amazing is not what you did, not that you did it when you were a little child but that you did all these sad strange things for me.

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