Poetics for the More-Than-Human World

I'm happy to have my poem, "with," included in this amazing new anthology, Poetics for the More-Than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary. 

It's an impressive collection, including such luminaries as Jane Hirshfield, Rae Armantrout, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, and Arthur Sze. 
I'm thrilled and humbled to be in such great company.

The entire collection is available now, online, and will appear in paperback this fall.

We're doing a series of Zoom talks/readings every Thursday, 4pm ET. You can register to attend these readings on Eventbrite here. I'll be reading July 30th.

My contribution, "with," brims with the array of my relations with more-than-humans, like this red squirrel. You can read the full poem here.

During this Anthropause, it's heartening to remind ourselves of the more-than-human world and their vital, irrepressible thrumming among us.

DH Lawrence: what a catastrophe

            Winter Solstice, Turnagain Arm, Alaska.

Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made a personal, merely personal 

feeling, taken away from the rising and setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of 

the solstice and equinox. This is what is the matter with us. We are bleeding at the roots, because we

are cut off from the earth and sun and stars, and love is a grinning mockery, because, poor blossom,

we plucked it from its stem on the tree of Life, and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized 

vase on the table.

                                                                                                                                         ~ D.H. Lawrence