Cover of COR Winter '25/Spring '26 issue.
I'm thrilled to have my memoir "The Trace" published in the latest issue of Crab Orchard Review. Thanks to @allisonpoet.bsky.social and the editorial team for including this essay on my son's and my journey in search of ancestral mothers following genetic testing.
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How should nature, scientific, and environmental writers might approach writing the world in an era of language policing. Let Buddha take the wheel.
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Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
The National Writing Project and National Park Service’s Write Out is right around the corner…
Let’s get writing outdoors!
Abbey approached his first morning in the high desert as if it were a conversation to ease into with a world that was waiting for him. These many years since, he has been teaching me to do the same.
Poster on a journaling exercise for moon lovers.
Tonight the moon will hang in a waxing crescent, a mere quarter of it reflecting the light of the sun. In these waning days of summer, what better time could there be than to start a cycle of moon journaling?
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Title page for post.
As nature, environmental, and scientific writing become increasingly contested and undermined genres, I’ve decided to put my life’s work on Substack as an open source curriculum for nature writers. New lectures and exercises to drop each week.
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May she rest in peace, and rise through story.
🙏🏻
Is Biography the One A.I.-Proof Genre? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/m...
For years I’ve used a foraging exercise as a starter for my writing practice. I describe it here!
megmuthupandiyan.substack.com/p/exercise-o...
Environmental and nature writers, check out this community opportunity starting in a couple of weeks!
www.climatepsychologyandchange.com/events/ecolo...
Here’s the recipe Jan followed:
practicalselfreliance.com/dandelion-je...
If she has a recipe she has tried and is willing to share, let me know!
That’s awesome! It’s an understated practice and community culture. We need to lift it up. Foraging for all!
Photo of dandelion jelly with a dandelion.
Our concept of foraging needs a revamp . . . it’s time to bring it into the ‘burbs.
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
Copy of Human Geographies hanging with bookmarks from tree.
The end of a book project is the beginning of a book’s life. ;)
With the arrival of my copies today, I rest in the knowledge that these poems will find their way home to readers in precious and wild and never-to-be-known ways.
#poetryislove
#poetrycollection
#newpoetry
#poetrygram
Thanks Johnson!
Poster for Human Geographies poetry reading.
Two weeks to the book launch!
Cheers to @watersedgepress.bsky.social 's and Lakeland University for coordinating the event!
#PoetryBook #NewRelease #BookLaunch #PoetryCommunity
#poetry These three wonderful chapbooks are open for pre-order at watersedgepress.com
Human Geographies is coming soon. . . @watersedgepress.bsky.social
has opened preorders today!
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Jamie Raskin is encouraging people to file Federal Privacy Act requests on their personal DOGE data. Fillable forms here: jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
Billionaire-proof social media that protects my right to my data and supports responsible participation in civic dialogue? Sign me up @bsky.app ….
Just did it myself.
Just because.
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
As warned.
