Rhizomatic Poetics for Our Plant Companions
How do we represent the complexity of plant companionship in a language marred by dualism? Jerald Lim uses twin cinema poetry.
Tagged: Poetry
Faculty Favorites: Environmental Activism in Art & Fiction
Edge Effects asks scholars to recommend creative works that explore aesthetic resistance to environmental precarity, or celebrate cultural traditions uplifting alternative ecological narratives and knowledge centered in care, kinship, and storytelling.
Translation, Rage, and What Is-Was-Willbe: A Conversation with Khairani Barokka
Jagravi Dave speaks with Khairani Barokka on her poetry collection amuk. They use the book to connect tenselessness, the violence of colonial translation, and rage across personal, political, and environmental scales.
Grave Decoration and Deep Time: A Poem
Inspired by embalming practices and artificial flowers in graveyards, Madeleine Bavley pens a poem exploring how we might trouble time with synthetic substances.
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.
A Map of Point Reyes
In this genre-queer meditation on mapping, Tori McCandless interrogates the colonial ramifications of the map while exploring processes of embodied and intertextual mapping that account for the interwoven histories of California’s coast. They ask: how can we know a place through touch and text?
Zoom Somatics in Four Poems
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
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.
Be Like Water, An Abolitionist Relationality
What does abolition mean for the everyday ways we relate to ourselves, to other humans, to the land, and to the more-than-human world? In this poetic essay, Ki’Amber Thompson wonders how water—and the call to “be like water”—might change the way we think and talk about abolition.
Beowulf in Teejop
The way early American scholars studied Beowulf reveals their investments in white Anglo-Saxonism and stolen land. Maxwell Gray considers the consequences of white settler scholarship on Native American lands.
