Poetic palette
This exercise is from India Flint’s course being (t)here. Take a photo and extract nine colors. She used screen shots, I used my rusty GIMP skills. Write poetic lines about each. The photo I...
Category: Ecopoetics
variants
LOSS PEQUEÑO GLAZIER / WHITE-FACED BROMELIADS ON 20 HECTARES (AN ITERATION) ecopoetics #2, page 72 Bromeliads is meant to explore subtle changes, like light changing on the tropical gloss of leaves as the sun...
“Exotics”
ecopoetics 2 – fall 2002 EXOTICS Joel Felix and Laura Nash This piece posed a problem for me, and led to a stall. I wanted to skip it. Today I reread it, and suddenly...
dindsenchas
New word! It describes a collection of texts (poetry and prose) from early Irish literature explaining the origins of place names. From Oregon Quarterly article, Oregon’s Epic Estuaries, by Michael Strelow: In twelfth-century Ireland,...
problematic
MARCELLA DURAND / THE ECOLOGY OF POETRY ecopoetics volume 2 I want to quarrel with this essay. I find this commentary on the problematic problematic: However, traditional Nature poetry, Ã la the human-subject meditating...
stills
MATTHEW COOPERMAN Stills Ecopoetics volume 2, pages 56 and 57 These are called Stills. I’m not sure why, maybe that is a technical term. A loose form, starting with a topic defined in the...
“the blue heron stole a little book / of recipes”
JACK COLLOM 3-4-00, from blue heron & ibc ecopoetics volume 2, page 53 I enjoy reading Jack Collom. I find his work gentle, intriguing, childlike. I like the Blue Heron selections a lot. They...