Warp & Weft — Environmental Weavings

Specimen of a Speculative Oologist

A consideration of poets as translators of nature

California’s Love Affair with the Pacific

As an active journalist/writer, passionate environmental activist, and a fun, laid-back…

The Immigrant in the Room

I can remember when I first fell in love with produce. I was standing in this same exact field. Only it was June…

For Better Science and Anarchy: Anarchafeminism

These Heavenly Trees

I found myself a bit cold. I was underdressed and frightfully aware of the sun’s waning ability to hold its head up. All…

Rain Water and Drowned, Dead Bee

I am not entirely clear, as I read Leslie Marmon Silko’s Sacred Water, what is being communicated…

Hermitage

It’s true there were times when it was too much and I slipped off in the first light or its…

Bad Daisies

An Essay on Irony

I spent my weekend reading Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris.

The Sea and Me

Rachel Carson’s 1951 book, The Sea Around Us, is filled with alliterations that whisk together science, poetry and creative writing…