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A new book just came out with our map on the cover. Écopoétiques africaines: Une expérience décoloniale des lieux is available in French and can be ordered through the publisher. We really like this cover, our river basin map of Africa looks amazing on the soft background.
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tribalephemeral · 3 months
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Acknowledgement to Juliana Spahr for her book "Well Then There Now"
Some notes on where the names We all the small ones and Demonoid Picotent came from and also stylistic influences on Synaptic Syntactic In retrospect, I probably should have included Juliana Spahr in the dedication or done acknowledgements in my 2017 book Synaptic Syntactic, since the style of some of the poems was significantly shaped by re-readings of the poems (but not the prose) therein. And…
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atompowers · 1 year
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5 Mary Oliver Poems That Will Make You Fall in Love with the Earth Again
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yuri-alexseygaybitch · 10 months
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The nihilism you encounter in academia regarding capitalist alternatives is so fucking infuriating like you'll be reading an article about the "Ecopoetics of the Decolonized Future" or whatever the fuck and the author will repeatedly go "we must continue to work towards building radical alternatives even if we have no idea what it will look like" and it's like. We do. There's literally working alternatives right now you just have dismissed them or are ignoring them completely because you're still clinging to the fiction you live in the best of all possible societies even as you condemn it.
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garadinervi · 6 months
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Rewilding: An Ecopoetic Anthology, Crested Tit Collective, [London], 2020
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greens-your-color · 2 months
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My grandad had a bad stroke over the weekend and has been in the hospital since. He’s now on palliative care. Of course that means a return of the vicious infighting on my mom’s side of the family. I think this time they’re going to figure out just how bad off my mom is and descend on us like wolves.
Tomorrow my dad (finally) has a doctor’s appointment that I’ve been dreading for months. God I hope it goes well. Not only do I love him and want him to stick around, he is also my mom’s primary caregiver. Without him, I’d likely have to give up on the PhD and move home to care for my mom full time. Again. And I literally just escaped that and how much damage it did to me psychologically. We would also be in truly dire financial straits—for the long term, too.
I’ve had at least three friends lose or come very close to losing parents in the past month. My best friend lost her mom in the span of a single afternoon about a month ago. However, with my own long, long history of medical trauma, I actually fear devastating, painful, years-long illnesses even more. Isn’t that absurd?
I’d very much like whatever’s in the air right now to pass my family by. But it seems at least partially not to be. But maybe it can be… a little bit?
I would really, really, really like something good to happen. Or at least something bad to not happen.
Gah.
Anyway here’s the fucking day tomorrow! Lmao! It’s always some fucking day around here.
Finish reading backwards design articles
Pack lunch + bag
Breakfast
Leave by 10:15
Pedagogy 11-1:30
Lunch
Finish Bourdieu reading
Material objects 3:30-6
Commute home
Thank god I have dinner made. Also I’ve lost 5-7pounds in the past week from sheer stress alone lol. I’m just straight up not eating more than 1000 calories a day I bet.
Finish ecopoetics readings
Try to get at least part way through intro EH readings, given how packed Tuesday will be
Intro EH 15, ideally (this is such a joke lol)
Bed before midnight, ideally
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insaneclownpussi · 1 month
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damn reading donna haraway for my ecopoetics and now i get why all my friends in undergrad fuck w her
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ashtrayfloors · 9 days
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99. Do you think Frank O'Hara was somewhere reading from Lunch Poems when some Black students were attacked for sitting at a Woolworth's lunch counter?
100. How about two actors play LeRoi Jones and Amiri Baraka discussing anti-Semitism in an episode of a less comedic season of poetic history set in the 1960s?
101. Is it possible to think of anything in the 1950s without thinking of the murder of Emmett Till in 1955?
102. Does Emmett Till or Rosa Parks trigger the Civil Rights Movement?
103. Did you know President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in the same year James Baldwin published The Fire Next Time?
104. What would constitute a perfect poem for you?
105. Who kept loving Sylvia Plath and Jimi Hendrix after high school, college, and middle age?
106. Who, in general, lives longer, painters or poets?
107. What is Time?
108. What are (your) ecopoetics?
109. Did you know Lucille Clifton went to Howard University with Amiri Baraka when he was known as LeRoi Jones?
110. If the poet representative of the last American century is, like the century, a mess of experiments, contradictions, and conviction, isn't Baraka a pretty good representative poet?
111. How about a vision of the American poet starring a mother (Lucille Clifton) who writes poems while raising her six children in Maryland in the 1970s?
112. Can you believe that Baraka's 1968 anthology of Afro-American writing, Black Fire, featured essays by John Henrik Clarke and Harold Cruse and poems by Sun Ra, David Henderson, A.B. Spellman, Sonia Sanchez, Henry Dumas, Jay Wright, Stanley Crouch, Lorenzo Thomas, and Victor Hernández Cruz, but did not include poems by Lucille Clifton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Bob Kaufman, Etheridge Knight, or Audre Lorde?
113. What do you think of Audre Lorde's "Power"?
114. Have you ever read "Those Winter Sundays" and wondered what happened to the mother in the poem?
115. Have you ever met anyone familiar with the poems of Allen Ginsberg's father, Louis Ginsberg?
116. If you write a poem like "Howl," do you really need to write anything else?
117. Is "Howl" an example of a poem that actually changed things?
118. When you write a poem, what does it teach you about the past?
119. Did you know Ginsberg reads the entirety of his poem "When the Light Appears" in the song "When the Light Appears Boy" on the album When I Was Born for the 7th Time, released by Cornershop in 1997, the year of Ginsberg's death?
120. Did you know that was his voice on "Ghetto Defendant" by The Clash ("Starved in metropolis / Hooked on necropolis / Addict of metropolis / Do the worm on acropolis / Slamdance the cosmopolis / Enlighten the populace...") ?
121. Do you sort of think of the Beat poets in the same way you think of the Grateful Dead, with members wandering around like several hairy, high Walt Whitmans?
122. Couldn't we debate whether Robert Lowell or Ginsberg is more confessional?
123. Is it true Bob Kaufman took a vow of silence to protest the Vietnam War?
124. Who brings more intimacy and toughness to poetry than Lucille Clifton?
125. What if every day you ask poetry of yourself?
—Terrance Hayes, from "Twentieth Century Examination Part V" (Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry, Penguin Books, 2023)
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tsunflowers · 1 year
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ok imagine it's the future and the antarctica has melted so bad that there's actual dirt and rocks down there now. some people who called themselves "ecopoets" were like "sucks that this happened and a bunch of other places on earth also got ruined but this is a chance to make a new biome where everything is bioengineered to adapt to these changes" and then some other people who were capitalists were like "oh hell yeah we can do mining down here" and the capitalists won. that's the premise of austral by paul mcauley
basically this woman kidnaps a teenager and travels all over antarctica with her bc she doesn't want her crime boss boyfriend to get her or the teen. they run into all the different types of people living on the continent and get shot at a lot. also there are domesticated mammoths. it felt to me like it was trying to be a high-stakes action movie of a book and an intellectual treatise on the nature of survival at the same time and those two things did not mesh well. so I don't think I would necessarily recommend it. but the amount of concentration and brainpower I needed to read it was perfect for 11 pm
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villanele · 7 months
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something something mitski and hozier ecopoetics something something
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polyproticamory-phd · 2 years
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First year of the PhD is coming to a close. Am slowly getting my work done over the next few days.
Left stack, Fall 2021: Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses; The Kissing Bug by Daisy Hernández; Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison; The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; Beloved by Toni Morrison; Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler; Quite Mad by Sarah Fawn Montgomery; Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag; The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde; The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams; Blood Sugar Canto by Ire'ne Lara Silva; When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz Middle stack, Spring 2022: Flight Risk by Joy Castro; The Value of Ecocriticism by Timothy Clark; Recomposing Ecopoetics by Lynn Keller; The Nutmeg's Curse by Amitav Ghosh; Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert; Bewilderment by Richard Powers; Appleseed by Matt Bell; The Swan Book by Alexis Wright; Othello and King Lear by William Shakespeare; Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose by Ayanna Thompson and Laura Turchi Right-hand side, various (re-)reads and research: Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson; The Future of Environmental Criticism by Lawrence Buell; America Is Not The Heart by Elaine Castillo; Sense of Place and Sense of Planet by Ursula K. Heise; Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell; Endgame by Ninotchka Rosca; The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert
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anniekoh · 2 years
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Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters by Petra Kuppers (2022)
In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in a shared sociocultural world. Reading contemporary performance encounters and artful engagements, this book models a disability culture sensitivity to living in a shared world, oriented toward more socially just futures. Eco soma methods mix and merge realities on the edges of lived experience and site-specific performance. Kuppers invites us to become moths, sprout gills, listen to our heart’s drum, and take starships into crip time. And fantasy is central to these engagements: feeling/sensing monsters, catastrophes, golden lines, heartbeats, injured sharks, dotted salamanders, kissing mammoths, and more. Kuppers illuminates ecopoetic disability culture perspectives, contending that disabled people and their co-conspirators make art to live in a changing world, in contact with feminist, queer, trans, racialized, and Indigenous art projects. By offering new ways to think, frame, and feel “environments,” Kuppers focuses on art-based methods of envisioning change and argues that disability can offer imaginative ways toward living well and with agency in change, unrest, and challenge.
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Via Strange Horizons interview:
Petra:  That's an excellent question. I grew up within a dominantly white German environment influenced by an awareness of genocide, by the heritage and presence of racist violence. There have always been non-white people in the Olimpias, but it still is a white-centered framework. Our axes of difference lay with our experiences regarding psychiatric institutions, incarceration, and class.
Readers, You can find Petra’s books at your favorite bookseller, online or local, including foundational texts like Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction. She has a queercrip short story collection, Ice Bar (2018), and her most recent poetry collection, Gut Botany, was on the New York Public Library's "Best Books of 2020." Her most recent performance book, Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters, is available as an economically just open book access here. You can find more out about Petra's work at her website, www.petrakuppers.com.
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sttarttsar · 3 months
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the ballad of your local fly
Mammoth mammal mmm good one My knees tremble you in the caress in the moment as Tender spring breeze come. I am a wild animal in a zoo on the escapade For a search in true peace and the moment I Set my eye on you Know this journey will end, after an eon of dark and light. Bonfire traditions will bring the truth unlike you A proud male of no bounds to truth; it is a concept Who knows of a truth, truly? A “truth of us in the flesh” and yet I don’t know tomorrow. My my mister miss whoever may you be God blessing a stork illegal to bring a fresh being to the world On one faithful morning Even before conception, the stars were aligned; You. Bright How bright Deafening Shining A celestial body An ecopoetic kettle-black soul The bird stripped of its wings And the viscous fluidity of your blue skin Stick again to me It deafens me Deathly How deathly you are. And of that, how good it must be to die truly An oblivion with you calls death Heaven-send.
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whimsy-wallfish · 5 months
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currently reading ; red ocher
author ; jessica poli
blurb ; Finalist, 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize In Jessica Poli’s Red Ocher , the wild mortality of the natural world merges with melancholic expressions of romantic a lamb runt dies in the night, a first-time lover inflicts casual cruelties, brussels sprouts rot in a field, love goes quietly and unbearably unrequited. This is an ecopoetics that explores the cyclical natures of love and grief, mindful that “there will be room for desire / again, even after it leaves / like a flood receding, / the damaged farmhouses / and washed-away bridges / lying scattered the next day / amid silt and debris.” Throughout, Poli’s poems hold space for the sacred—finding it in woods overgrown with thorny weeds, in drunken joy rides down rural roads, and in the red ocher barns that haunt the author’s physical and emotional landscapes.
what drew me in ; one particular poem i saw posted on tumblr, the one about the lamb.
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sorchanitua · 6 months
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Northwestern University Assistant Professorship English in Environmental Literatures & the Environmental Humanities
Deadline: November 6 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “Possible areas of specialization might include environmental racism and justice, human and nonhuman relations, the literature of climate crisis, catastrophe studies, ecopoetics, or the energy…
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stuartelden · 6 months
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Steve Mentz, Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels - Fordham University Press, April 2024
Steve Mentz, Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels – Fordham University Press, 2024; foreword by Suzanne Conklin Akbari. Navigate the Depths of a Timeless Classic, Reimagined.Come sail with I.We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiarcourse. This time, the Pequod’s American voyage steers its course acrossthe curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone at the helm.…
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