Category: Poetry

  • Camera Trap Poetics

    Camera Trap Poetics

    By

    Chase A. Niesner

    in ,

    After the Woolsey Fire devastated the Santa Monica Mountains in California, researchers placed trail cameras to observe the return of wildlife. Chase A. Niesner composed and performed “Signs of Life” from the images captured. In this exhibit, he reflects on the essence of being and the passage of time captured in this great return.

  • Wind Turbine Elegy

    Wind Turbine Elegy

    By

    Anya Kaplan-Harnett

    in

    In this poem, Anya Kaplan-Harnett imagines centuries of social and ecological change from the perspective of a wind turbine towering over rural Illinois.

  • Poetic Encounters Across Borders

    Poetic Encounters Across Borders

    By

    Ann Fisher-Wirth

    and

    Wilfried Raussert

    in ,

    Poet Ann Fisher-Wirth collaborates with photographer Wilfried Raussert and a team of translators to interpret street art across the Americas. Together, they illustrate the interconnectedness of people and nature in urban environments.

  • Rhizomatic Poetics for Our Plant Companions

    Rhizomatic Poetics for Our Plant Companions

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    Jerald Lim

    in

    How do we represent the complexity of plant companionship in a language marred by dualism? Jerald Lim uses twin cinema poetry.

  • Love, Violence, & Respect in Animal-Human Companionship

    Love, Violence, & Respect in Animal-Human Companionship

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    Kelsey Dayle John

    in

    Companionship across species is not always simple, nor always rewarding, but perhaps says something about respect for more-than-human beings. In this poem and short essay, Kelsey Dayle John reflects on how the complex fear of witnessing her two dogs fight shaped her approach to multispecies relations.

  • The Strange Love of Cuckoos and Currawongs

    The Strange Love of Cuckoos and Currawongs

    By

    Kate Judith

    in ,

    Kate Judith shares a creative and speculative story through the vertiginous voices of the cuckoo and currawong, which underscore the tension between parasitism and care. The currawong’s caregiving is marked by both sacrifice and survival, while the cuckoo’s actions highlight a demolishing invasive behavior. This form reflects the complex, often painful exchanges that define interspecies…

  • Unruly Sediments

    Unruly Sediments

    By

    Jac Common

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    Katy Lewis Hood

    in ,

    Jac Common & Katy Lewis Hood trace marine aggregates dredging in UK coastal waters across multiple scales, arguing that this extractive industry needs to be situated in colonial and capitalist ocean histories and presents.

  • Grave Decoration and Deep Time: A Poem

    Grave Decoration and Deep Time: A Poem

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    Madeleine Bavley

    in

    Inspired by embalming practices and artificial flowers in graveyards, Madeleine Bavley pens a poem exploring how we might trouble time with synthetic substances.

  • Zoom Somatics in Four Poems

    Zoom Somatics in Four Poems

    By

    Petra Kuppers

    in ,

    Inspired by shared Zoom somatics and careful attention to spiders and lichen, Petra Kuppers offers a collection of four poems about the experience of being with others online amid isolation.

  • How Protest Artists Transformed Whitewashed History

    How Protest Artists Transformed Whitewashed History

    By

    Les James

    in ,

    In her poem and photo exhibit, Les James reflects on how protest artists transformed the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia and spoke back to history.