Episode 5: Forest Rhythms: The Hip Hop Environmentalism of Thomas Rashad Easley
In this month’s episode, Jemma and Brandon sit down with Thomas Rashad Easley, Hip Hop artist and Assistant Dean of Community and Inclusion at the Yale School of the Environment. He uses what he calls “Hip Hop Forestry” as a means to creatively address issues of environmental justice and inclusion—both within and outside of academia.
Find Easley at his Website: rashadeasley.com or on Twitter/Instagram: @RashadEas
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Half-Life of Empathy
By Rebecca A. Durham. New Rivers Press, 2020.
Half-life of Empathy interrogates the complex human/non-human relationship in the Anthropocene. Rooted in the author’s deep fascination and scientific knowledge of ecology, these poems take literal experiences and explore/distort them with language. Moving away from the traditional nature poem, this work enacts an ecology where a human speaker is decentered and earth regains agency.
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“What a beautiful use of the words of water and geology and all things living. Durham writes a new ecological poetry, resonant, rich, and ...