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Surfing from Brenda Coultas to Barbara Henning, and was rewarded by a quote from Alice Notley. THERE is too much of human material now everywhere: the world is covered with “the man-made.” None of...

I saw him later, carrying around a strange sculpture difficult to describe, because there was no comparison to it in the natural world. Brenda Coultas, “The Bowery Project,” page 24 Speaking of traits that...

Surfing somehow from Alicia Cohen to the mythology of the Tongva, I was rewarded by an interesting quote from Alfred Kroeber (whom I think of as the father of Ursula LeGuin). It’s long and...

The Elm said this like a wisper Alicia Cohen, “Talking Forest,” ecopoetics 1, page 20 Like this a lot. Something about that word “wisper” is so attractive. What would a wisper be. I like...

More from the Editor’s Statement. (Eventually, I will get past the Editor’s Statement.) Perhaps we will begin to revalue the “nature walk,” and to venerate the humble, empirical tasks of “natural history,” in ways...

JS speaking of the absence of “walks” in today’s best poetry: Whether this is because poetry has turned the bulk of its energies toward accomodating, or resisting, capitalist “schizophrenia” (symptom in part of the...

conditions for outside discoveries, in human language arts at the turn the millenium, feel narrow: generally, walks do not make it into the embattled environment of today’s best poetry. JS, ecopoetics 01, page 5...