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The Wasteland, Tiasa Adhya Feb 2018

The Wasteland, Tiasa Adhya

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Riverine floodplains and deltas that have cradled human civilization and are now ravaged by ecologically blind land-use policies form the context of this poem. Policies that term nutrient rich wetlands as "wastelands" are economically motivated and backed by policy makers for short-term gains. The conversion of wetlands makes refugees out of resident wild species. The first few lines of the poem describe the character of the fishing cat, the only cat in South Asia that is adapted for wetlands and is an indicator of the health of wetland ecosystems. The poem talks of a nemesis that awaits the human world—we …


Two Poems, Joanna Lilley Feb 2018

Two Poems, Joanna Lilley

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Poetry by Joanna Lilley.


Two Poems, Clea Roberts Feb 2018

Two Poems, Clea Roberts

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Poetry by Clea Roberts


Athabasca River Glacial Melt Global Warming Blues, Gene Hyde Feb 2018

Athabasca River Glacial Melt Global Warming Blues, Gene Hyde

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“Athabasca River Glacial Melt Global Warming Blues” is a poem and photograph by Gene Hyde, a writer, photographer, and archivist living in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. This is part of his PhotoEpigraphic51 series that combines a photograph, an epigraph, and a 51 syllable, three haiku verse structure. The photograph was taken in September 2017 along the Athabasca River in Jasper National Park.


The Eau Claire Log Drivers, Sid Marty Feb 2018

The Eau Claire Log Drivers, Sid Marty

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Poetry by Sid Marty


Two Poems, Dan Macisaac Feb 2018

Two Poems, Dan Macisaac

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Poetry by Dan MacIsaac


A Collaboration Of Poetry And Art: The Krill Kill Project, Diane Guichon, Sarah Melanie Harrill Feb 2018

A Collaboration Of Poetry And Art: The Krill Kill Project, Diane Guichon, Sarah Melanie Harrill

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Artist Sarah Melanie Harrill interrogates poet Diane Guichon's poem "Krill Kill" in this project of interwoven, creative representations and musings on the connectivity between nature and humanity. This project formed part of the Calgary People's Poetry Festival in the fall of 2017.


Museum Archipelago, Elizabeth Dodd Feb 2018

Museum Archipelago, Elizabeth Dodd

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Poetry by Elizabeth Dodd


X̱Wáýx̱Way, Andrea Nicki Feb 2018

X̱Wáýx̱Way, Andrea Nicki

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Poetry by Andrea Nicki


Two Poems, Carlyle Macphail Feb 2018

Two Poems, Carlyle Macphail

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Poetry by Carlyle MacPhail


Two Poems, Sarah Switzer Feb 2018

Two Poems, Sarah Switzer

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Poetry by Sarah Switzer


Two Poems, Scott R. Honeycutt Feb 2018

Two Poems, Scott R. Honeycutt

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Poetry by Scott R. Honeycutt


Three Poems, Basma Kavanagh Feb 2018

Three Poems, Basma Kavanagh

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Poetry by Basma Kavanagh


Three Poems, Renée Jackson-Harper Feb 2018

Three Poems, Renée Jackson-Harper

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Poetry by Renée Jackson-Harper


Blood Fable By Oisín Curran, Michael Occhionero Feb 2018

Blood Fable By Oisín Curran, Michael Occhionero

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Review of Oisín Curran's Blood Fable.


The Terranauts By T.C. Boyle And The Addlands By Tom Bullough, Carly E. Thomas Feb 2018

The Terranauts By T.C. Boyle And The Addlands By Tom Bullough, Carly E. Thomas

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Review of T.C. Boyle's The Terranauts and Tom Bullough's The Addlands.


Rag Cosmology By Erin Robinsong, Camilla Nelson Feb 2018

Rag Cosmology By Erin Robinsong, Camilla Nelson

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Review of Erin Robinsong's Rag Cosmology.


Islands Of Grass By Trevor Herriot And The Long Walk By Jan Zwicky, Gillian Harding-Russell Feb 2018

Islands Of Grass By Trevor Herriot And The Long Walk By Jan Zwicky, Gillian Harding-Russell

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Review of Trevor Herriot's Islands of Grass and Jan Zwicky's The Long Walk.


Gothic: A Field Journal, Grant Paton Feb 2018

Gothic: A Field Journal, Grant Paton

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An undergraduate’s memoir about his experience as a summer researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. The student explains his research in his own words and gives his thoughts on how he, the research center, and the other scientists there fit into the local and national society.


Form Follows Function, Lyn Baldwin Feb 2018

Form Follows Function, Lyn Baldwin

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Natural history. Teaching. Writing. All have form, all have function. But just as no architecture is risk-free, no architecture is neutral. In this personal essay, I explore the surprising connections that develop when university students engage with natural history as way of knowing the ground underfoot.


All The Names Between By Julia Mccarthy And The Girls With Stone Faces By Arleen Paré, Erin Renee Wahl Feb 2018

All The Names Between By Julia Mccarthy And The Girls With Stone Faces By Arleen Paré, Erin Renee Wahl

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Review of Arleen Paré's The Girls with Stone Faces and Julia McCarthy's All the Names Between.


Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasures In Posthuman Times By Stacy Alaimo, Nathan Tebokkel Feb 2018

Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasures In Posthuman Times By Stacy Alaimo, Nathan Tebokkel

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Review of Stacy Alaimo's Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasures in Posthuman Times.


Anthropocene Feminism By Richard Grusin, Stephanie Eccles Feb 2018

Anthropocene Feminism By Richard Grusin, Stephanie Eccles

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Review of Richard Grusin's Anthropocene Feminism.


A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography Of A Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder By Ma-Nee Chacaby With Mary Louisa Plummer, Emily Leung-Pittman Feb 2018

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography Of A Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder By Ma-Nee Chacaby With Mary Louisa Plummer, Emily Leung-Pittman

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Review of A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer.


Permanent Weekend: Nature, Leisure, And Rural Gentrification By John Michels, Cameron M. Butler Feb 2018

Permanent Weekend: Nature, Leisure, And Rural Gentrification By John Michels, Cameron M. Butler

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Review of John Michels' Permanent Weekend: Nature, Leisure, and Rural Gentrification.


Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, And Environmental Narrative By Alexa Weik Von Mossner, David Tagnani Feb 2018

Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, And Environmental Narrative By Alexa Weik Von Mossner, David Tagnani

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Review of Alexa Weik von Mossner's Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative.


The Wilds Of Poetry: Adventures In Mind And Landscape By David Hinton, Joel Weishaus Feb 2018

The Wilds Of Poetry: Adventures In Mind And Landscape By David Hinton, Joel Weishaus

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Review of David Hinton’s The Wilds of Poetry: Adventure’s in Mind and Landscape.


While Glaciers Slept: Being Human In A Time Of Climate Change By M Jackson, Stephen Siperstein Feb 2018

While Glaciers Slept: Being Human In A Time Of Climate Change By M Jackson, Stephen Siperstein

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Review of M. Jackson's While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change.


Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights By Alan Smart And Josephine Smart, David Shaw Feb 2018

Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights By Alan Smart And Josephine Smart, David Shaw

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Review of Alan Smart and Josephine Smart’s Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights.


The Microbial State: Global Thriving And The Body Politic By Stefanie R. Fishel, Dustin Purvis Feb 2018

The Microbial State: Global Thriving And The Body Politic By Stefanie R. Fishel, Dustin Purvis

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Review of Stefanie R. Fishel's The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politic.