Anne Waldman’s Manatee/Humanity

April 29, 2014

A mantra, an evocation, a study of the endangered manatee, Anne Waldman summons the manatee as a witness across time …

The Blood Moon “is a small hole at the top of the sky”

April 14, 2014

From Man-Moth by Elizabeth Bishop But when the Man-Moth pays his rare, although occasional, visits to the surface, the moon …

April 7, 2014

The devastation predicted by climate scientists in the latest reports is shocking. In the poem Carmel Point, Robinson Jeffers reminds …

March 17, 2014

I saw the Argentine poet Lila Zemborain discuss science and poetry in Seattle last month. Her book Mauve sea-orchids (2007, …