Thank you for your interest! Here, you will find reading recommendations, writing prompts, and reflections. I will also post information about the Edison Poetry Series, which happens in April and July of each year in collaboration with Book Shucker.

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Nature Writing Prompts
Writing Prompt #16
gratitude and gathering
December 6, 2024
gratitude and gathering
News
Is it too soon to "circle back after the holidays"?
Looking at the last eight weeks of the year
November 7, 2024
Looking at the last eight weeks of the year
Nature Writing Prompts
Writing Prompt #15
Language of disaster and exceptionally incomplete lists…
October 23, 2024
Language of disaster and exceptionally incomplete lists…
News
Are these best sellers a new way forward?
On Braiding Sweetgrass and The Body Keeps the Score
October 2, 2024
On Braiding Sweetgrass and The Body Keeps the Score
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Fishtrap Writing Workshop
Join me online in January!
October 2, 2024
Join me online in January!
Nature Writing Prompts
Writing Prompt #14
signs of fall and experimenting with form
September 16, 2024
signs of fall and experimenting with form
News
The Unsettling of America: Book Discussion Group
October 24th at 7 pm (online)
September 11, 2024
October 24th at 7 pm (online)
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Writing Prompt #13
April to August–The Sealey Challenge, ekphrastic poetry, earth art
August 27, 2024
Currently, I am doing the Sealey Challenge—read one book of poems a day in the month of August. April is national poetry month and
News
The Five Stages of Ecological Grief
Writing Poems for the Anthropocene
August 15, 2024
Writing Poems for the Anthropocene The term ecological grief has been used to understand the loss humans experience as a result of ongoing, irreversible environmental
News
Writing Prompt #12
What is nature writing? What is time?
August 5, 2024
What is nature writing? What is time? We are deep in summer and the field next door was just cut for hay silage—a sign
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Beat the Heat
Summer forges on. Should we enjoy it?
July 24, 2024
Summer forges on. Should we enjoy it? You may have seen the headline “After Earth’s hottest day recorded on Sunday, Monday breaks new record”