The Echo

English Professor Wins Inaugural Nature Poetry Prize

California Lutheran University English professor Jacqueline Lyons has been awarded the inaugural 2025 Nature Poetry Prize by ...
YES! Magazine

Writers of Color Are Redefining Nature Writing

A new generation of poets, essayists, memoirists, and novelists is narrating stories of severed connections and exploitation—both their own and the Earth’s. In the winter of 2021, still very much in ...
Los Angeles Times

How does nature inspire us? These Latino poets dig deep in their roots

Nature has been a theme and inspiration to poets since forever. When I first started writing, I hated nature poems. Poems about the trees in Massachusetts or those contemplating winter in Vermont felt ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Sonoma native Ada Limón’s poet laureate project boosts awareness of nature

Limón is in the midst of visiting seven national parks and unveiling poetry installations on accessible picnic tables that have been turned into works of art. Part of Ada Limón’s signature project as ...
insider.si.edu

Black nature : four centuries of African American nature poetry / edited by Camille T. Dungy

Cycle one: Just looking. We must be careful / Ed Roberson -- Earth is a living thing / Lucille Clifton -- Mountains of California, part I / Al Young -- Mountain road ends here / G.E. Patterson -- ...
KUOW

'You Are Here' and you are writing. Readers get creative for National Poetry Month

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we're reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing a ...
Yahoo

Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet who ranged from nature and classics to the Troubles

Longley resisted the temptation ‘to write the poem of the latest [terrorist] atrocity. We knew there was no point in versifying opinion’ - Irish Eye/Alamy Michael Longley, who has died aged 85, was a ...
npca.org

Poetry in Place

With a series of poetic park installations and a new anthology, the U.S. poet laureate hopes to remind visitors and readers of their stake in the natural world. Around two years ago, Ada Limón started ...
The Conversation

New nature writing genre brings wild and tricky aspects of climate crisis to life

James Canton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
The New York Times

I Want This Poem Read Aloud at My Funeral

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs its depths. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott You can hear a reading of this poem ...
PBS

Urban Sprawl Haiku: Capturing Nature vs. City Growth in Poetry | Jeff Kass | Read, Write, ROAR!

Learn how to capture the delicate balance between human-built cities and the natural world. How do cities impact nature? In this video, Jeff Kass introduces the concept of urban sprawl and teaches us ...

China poet gains attention for ‘happy’ response to menopause, even writes poem on topic

Celebrated writer who was born with cerebral palsy cuts a controversial figure with her openness about the sexual desires of ...