It’s thoughts–and just One Heart: Emily Dickinson and Plover Migration
“Flowers –to keep the Eyes–from going awkward When it snows–A Bird if they prefer–Though Winter Fire–sing clear as Plover–to …
Author Archives: Genevieve Manset
poem: Tell Them
Originally posted on Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner:
Tell Them I prepared the package for my friends in the states the dangling earrings woven…
Marshall Island Poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner: Honor your Mother (UN Summit on Climate Change)
We are drawing the line here Because we baby are going to fight– Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner Kathy Jetnil Kijiner UN Climate …
Building Blocks: Brenda Iijima & Annie Won on the Chemicals that Make us Ill
Once when /building block /Once when/nuclei/Once when/mitochondrial/When the town w(as)/historical/When the town w(as) prosperous/mountainous From Brenda Iijima & Annie Won …
Lizard Tails and Poetic Regeneration in the Poetry of Stanley Kunitzk
“Certain saurian species, notably the skink, are capable of shedding their tails in self-defense when threatened. The detached appendage diverts …
What Endures and What Does Not? Jynne Dilling Martin, Antartica Artist in Residence
“Am Going South, Amundsen”/An oil painting of a jaguar eating an emperor penguin/is the start of a daydream in the …
Joseph Ceravolo’s Hymn to the Cambrian Worm
The wine is gonebut I’m still not drunkCan non-visual realitybring all my dreams to completion? -From Geological Hymn by Joseph …
Shrike, Poet, Predatory songbird
“Most days back then I would walk by the shrike tree,/ a dead hawthorne at the base of a hill,/The …
The Pleasure of Squid Anatomy
Denise Levertov’s “Pleasures” has been one of my favorite poems forever. Maybe it’s because Levertov gets at what draws me …
Ana Bozicevic, and the perceptual illusion of rotating snakes
The psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoaka works with visual illusions: objects appear to shift and move as the …
STEM & Leaf 