A powerful and necessary conversation on motherhood and environment between Jennifer Case, Martha Park, Emily Raboteau, Christina Rivera, and Elizabeth Rush. #motherhood #environment #mothers #children

Two gorgeous poems of the more-than-human-world by 15th Annual Poetry Contest semifinalist Jane Satterfield, with audio: "Joining the Crows" and "Dragonfly or Drone". #poetry #poems #poet #crows #dragonflies #drones #flight

Corrie Lynn White's "The Sea Doesn't Give AF It's Your Honeymoon" is a wild ride of a short essay and a semifinalist in the 15th Annual Nonfiction Contest. #sea #danger #ocean #pregnancy #swimming #puertorico #fear #teaching

Three moving poems of personal, family, and natural history, by H. M. Cotton, with audio. #poems #poetry #poet #family #rural #stars #sea #bay #familyhistory

Rob Carney chooses William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow" over the politics of the day. We should, too, no? #poetry #poem #poet #image #imagery

"The Plague of Hail" by Julie Marie Wade is a brilliant, searing flash essay of a hailstorm literal and metaphorical from Wade's childhood, with audio. #mother #hail #storm #fury #fear

Two new and powerful Letters to America, with audio, by Saida Agostini. Read or listen now: #lettertoamerica #poetry #poet #poems #race #racism

"You and I are Butterflies" by Alice Kinerk is a terrific story about Benji, a fifth-grade boy in a new school who makes a new friend, or does he? #fiction #story #shortstory #boys #friendship #pugetsound #sailing #danger

the Sowell Collection, and Texas Tech University Press are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2025 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize for a manuscript in fiction. #sowellprize

RT @BarbDrakeVera: I’m honored to have “Lord of the Snow Star” featured in with Jorge Vera’s images of the Qoyllur…

RT @BarbDrakeVera: Thanks for showcasing my work, as well as my collaboration with photographer Jorge Vera Du Bois. Honored to be on your w…

RT @WriterCass: It was an honor reviewing this important book of poetry by @DSmithSilva for @Terrainorg.

Cassandra Lewis reviews Dorsía Smith Silva's poetry book about Hurricane María, colonialism, and racial injustice in Puerto Rico: In Inheritance of Drowning. #review #poetry #puertorico #hurricanes #racialinjustice #colonialism

South Main in Buena Vista, CO, is an #Unsprawl case study of a small-town #newurban development that began, in part, to save public access to the Arkansas River. #southmain #buenavista #newurbanism #sustainabledesign #design #architecture #development

Toxic, toxins, cancer, ideograms, men, women, & the old/new president: Elizabeth Jacobson's searing Letter to America, "America, Here We Go Again!" has it all. Don't miss this one. #poetry #politics #lettertoamerica #toxins #toxic

Nathan Dixon's "Mermaids in the Floodplain" is wry climate fiction from deep inside the conservative, anti-science movement. Strap in for this one. #fiction #story #clifi #floods #shortstory #climatefiction #climate #conservative

The Prologue to Barbara Drake-Vera's Melted Away: A Memoir of Climate Change and Caregiving in Peru finds her among pilgrims, a witness to beauty and loss, at a melting glacier, the Lord of the Shining Snow Star. #essay #loss #glaciers #peru #melt

Daniel Seifert's "Calming exercise for the 21st Century" is a welcome and no doubt essential Letter to America poem for Inauguration Day. #poem #poetry #poet #politicalpoetry #winter

"Sleeping in the Anthropocene" is an excerpt from Canadian Paul Huebener's fascinating, important book Restless in Sleep Country: Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Sleep. #sleep #weather #climate #climatechange #canada #calgary #floods #risk