Goats, Bees, and Poetry: A Conversation with Nickole Brown
Heather Swan speaks to author and poet Nickole Brown about her relationship with animals, the more-than-human world, and the Hellbender poetry conference.
Author: Heather Swan
For the Love of Frogs
Poison dart frogs in Colombia face threats from deforestation and the illegal wildlife trade. Heather Swan profiles Ivan Lozano, a conservationist who has dedicated his life to breeding and protecting these frogs.
What Counts as Environmental Storytelling: A Conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita
The award-winning author and Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing discusses storytelling during environmental crisis, legacies of Japanese incarceration, and why ethnographies are environmental writing.
Millions of Insects and a Curator at Work
Insects are going extinct at alarming rates. Curators at one of the country’s premier insect collections are working to slow that change.
Turning Toward
A writer’s poignant reflections on care and healing. What might happen if we all turned toward, instead of away?
The Stories and Languages of Home: A Conversation with Robin W. Kimmerer
Dr. Robin W. Kimmerer speaks about indigenous knowledges, traditional science, and the stories and words that connect us to our nonhuman homes.
Being With Bees
A beekeeper struggles to make sense of aggression from her typically docile insect charges.
An Incantation to be Spoken Lakeside
A poem inspired by David H. Thompson’s “Algae Bloom at Fish Lake.”
