Category: Volume 1

Robert Kocik from Overcoming Fitness ecopoetics journal, pp 62 – 74 Imagination. I would like to find out more about imagination. Stephen Batchelor has one chapter about Imagination in “Buddhism without Beliefs.” Other than...

Kevin Killian “Kona Spray Ad Campaign” ecopoetics 1 Trying to write about gay eco-erotica. Not sure what to say. Only that I would not ordinarily have encountered this story in my everyday life. So...

Pastoral Michael Kelleher Ecopoetics 1 page 57 This is an enjoyable piece. It doesn’t torture me by raising questions, other than a desire to read up on the meaning of “pastoral.” I can read...

The repetitive appearance of the word “corn” in “Everything I Know About Corn” is a pattern. The pattern is like corn kernels. The poem is shaped vaguely like an ear of corn, tall and...

I’m remembering a conference on the Prose Poem, August 2001, Walpole New Hampshire. Robert Bly attended. His main emphasis in writing prose poems is close observance of, intimacy with, the object. Including plants. He...

Lisa Jarnot Everything I Know About Corn ecopoetics 1, page 55 I’ve read this poem many times. I’m starting to feel like I’ve eaten corn from reading the poem a lot. I enjoy eating...

I went to a poetry reading this week featuring my friend Ralph Nazareth. He closed with “A Question for Vaclav Havel,” a short prose poem wherein he tries to ask Vaclav Havel whether poetry...