Earth and Eros: A Celebration in Words and Photographs
Compiled by Lorraine Anderson, with photographs by Bruce Hodge and foreword by Robert Michael Pyle. White Cloud Press: Ashland, OR, 2015.
Our bodies and the earth are intimately connected. But because so many of us live more online than on the land, it’s easy to forget this connection.
Earth and Eros brings together prose and poetry by nearly seventy writers—including Terry Tempest Williams, Gary Snyder, Pablo Neruda, Diane Ackerman, Sherman Alexie, Zora Neale Hurston, D. H. Lawrence, Louise ...
ASLE at SAMLA 2015
By Rebecca Godwin, ASLE/SAMLA Liaison, Professor of English and Director of Barton Writing Center, Barton College.
As an affiliated group of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), ASLE held two sessions at SAMLA 87 in Durham, North Carolina, in November 2015. Embracing the conference theme In Concert: Literature and the Other Arts, participants explored how the arts help to make us better stewards of the earth by drawing our attention to it. ASLE sessions began with a question echoing John Felstiner’s Can Poetry ...
Winterkill
By Todd Davis. Michigan State University Press: East Lansing, MI, 2016.
Todd Davis’s new book of poetry, Winterkill, has just been published by Michigan State University Press. Winterkill is Davis’s fifth book of poems and is praised by Stephen Dunn, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, as having “just the right balance of reverence, precision, and quiet indictment . . .which means it does not shy away from death, or the predatory, or the speaker’s involvement in nature’s processes.” According to Gray’s Sporting ...