There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral
By Elizabeth Jacobson. Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2025.
As the title intimates, There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral, a variety of distinct voices sing in this new poetry collection, often expressing the complicated, rapidly fluctuating truths of our heating planet, family function and dysfunction, and the surprising reflections that emerge from a continuous practice of paying attention to the self, society and the greater wild world. These poems work to dispel delusion, empowering the reader to fully witness ...
Islands as Chronotopes: Geographies of Isolation, Imagination, and Interconnection from Antiquity to the Anthropocene
Call for Abstracts:
Islands as Chronotopes: Geographies of Isolation, Imagination, and Interconnection from Antiquity to the Anthropocene
Editors:
Nikoleta Zampaki, Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of English Studies, University of Information Technology and Management, Poland
Scott Slovic, Senior Scientist at the Oregon Research Institute and Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities Emeritus at the University of Idaho, U.S.A.
Andreas Markantonatos, Professor of Greek, Department of Philology, University of the Peloponnese, Greece
Outline:
The study of islands transcends mere physical geography; they are powerful chronotopes, where time and space are densely fused and narratively ...