My book Tending the Vines is an effort to synthesize all these various contradictions that give way to Black ecological ...

I pinch and lace and trim, and the plants answer with their scent: the unmistakable green, sharp, and faintly bitter perfume ...

It took a while for me to be able to find the voice and cadence of describing the desert at the same time as moving the plot ...

and found a universe of life.

THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ask about your pregnancy history. It is very important that you provide accurate personal health history, age, lifestyle factors, known medical conditions, and current ...

When we write about landscapes we know well and inhabit, it is easy to stop truly seeing and fall into habits surrounding language, image, and form. When this happens, poets need to find ways to ...

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LAKE SUPERIOR ON A CALM DAY has a depth clarity of over a hundred feet. In shallow waters, boulders appear to be just below the surface. Near shore, trash creates a timeline of occupation: plates, ...

To depict a loveless and macabre world—a world of the scarecrow acting as the Lord of blood-thirsty crows, of the harridan decked out as a beauty queen . . . a world of debased flesh and servile ...

A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long ...

IT’S SPRING WHEN I REALIZE that I may never have children, and around that time the thirteen-year cicadas return, burrowing out of neat, round holes in the ground to shed their larval shells, sprout ...

THE CHINESE CHARACTER for silkworm (蚕) is composed of the symbol for sky (天) and the symbol for worm (虫). They are heavenly worms. China’s Sichuan Province, a damp, landlocked corner east of the ...