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.
Tagged: Poetry
Poet’s Body as Archive Amidst a Rising Ocean
Western media often portrays Pacific Islanders as helpless victims of “sinking islands.” Kuhelika Ghosh shows how Marshallese poet Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner brings performance poetry to climate activism and resistance.
Cryogenics
A poetic meditation on glaciers and glacial worldings in Eyak, Alaska, “Cryogenics” reflects on human and more-than-human kinships at low temperatures.
Writing Ecopoetry During Doomstead Days: A Conversation with Brian Teare
A new book of poems, Doomstead Days, explores our intimate entanglements with watersheds, environmental loss, and the toxic burdens we carry.
Why We Need Experimental Poetry in the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Lynn Keller
A new generation of experimental poets responds to the growing awareness of human impacts on the planet with work that challenges traditional nature poetry and poetic form.
Starlicide
In this meditation on the pesticide Starlicide, a poet explores how human hubris leads us to control nature’s “nuisances” and how we fail to see their beauty.
Beautiful Resilience: Conversations after an Earthquake
A storyteller’s account of Manabu Ikeda’s pen-and-ink commemoration of Japan’s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in 2011.
On Care in Dark Times
How Emily Dickinson might tell the story of the Anthropocene.
The Missile
A sonnet about an unexpected winter visitor.
Edgy Stuff: February 2016 Recommendations
A special edition of our February 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board, honoring Black History Month.
