Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025
New England is a region defined by its landscape, its climate, its geography, and its peoples. Lined with harbors along its coastlines, ringed with mountains along its northern and western edges, and interleaved with dozens of rivers, the long history of the region that now comprises six states offers rich material for scholars exploring how the environment has shaped society and culture. Equally important have been studies of how indigenous and settler colonist communities have contributed to, changed, or harmed the environment of ...
Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026: Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene
Call for applications. Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026: Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene
The theme for the Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026 is climate philosophy in the anthropocene. Climate philosophy responds to environmental destabilization by discussing climate temporalities and spatialities, eco-politics, climate justice, climate affects, and the ethical and political reorientations demanded by climate change. Climate philosophy also rethinks climate, partly in response to global heating, as world in the phenomenological sense and as history and habitat of life on earth. The Capitalocene references the Anthropocene dominated by colonial ...
The Bird Church
By Marisol Cortez. Finishing Line Press, 2025.
Written in the years after returning home to South Texas, The Bird Church tends to the urban microfauna—the grackles, koi, chicharras, cosmos, feral parrots, snoutnosed butterflies, but also the ornamental fruit and children—which persist in the unsupervised scars of highways and inland refineries. Less a poetry of witness than of attention, The Bird Church considers “what is here”: the ordinary life that persists and survives amid the occupations of colonial history and its current climate and political ...
Leafskin
By Miranda Schmidt. Stillhouse Press, 2025.
Miranda Schmidt’s lyrical debut novel blurs the boundaries between poetry and prose, human and nonhuman, reality and magic. A tale of queer love, new motherhood, and ecological interconnectedness, Leafskin interrogates how we create, and what we become, in a time of environmental devastation.
A poet and her husband have been trying to make a baby. But while undergoing fertility treatments in the midst of a harrowing wildfire season, Jo reconsiders raising a child in a time of climate crisis. ...