June 28, 2023

By Rebecca A. Durham. Shanti Arts, 2022.

Chosen by Susan Howe for the Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, Loss/Less is a collection that addresses grief and reverence for the natural world. These commanding yet haunting poems present an “ecstatic interpretation of the natural world that brings Emerson to mind. Her lush, vibrant language is a hymn, hypnotic—and a warning about our human impact, our ‘monstrous lust’ that threatens” (Erin Malone).

Poet, botanist, and artist Rebecca A. Durham is the author of the award-winning ecopoetry books ...

Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, Frank Hakemulder, and W. P. Malecki. University of Minnesota Press, 2023.

There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today’s environmental crises; however, surprisingly little is known about their impact and effectiveness. In Empirical Ecocriticism, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder combine an environmental humanities perspective with empirical methods derived from the social sciences to study the influence of environmental stories ...