Bibliography of Eco Poetry and Eco Literature Anthologies #AWP22
Ann Fisher-Wirth, Laura-Gray Street, Ruth Nolan, Craig Santos Perez, and I came away energized by the response to our panel at #AWP22 on The Value and Use of Eco Poetry Anthologies in a Time of Environmental Crisis. For a compilation in process of Eco Poetry Anthologies and Eco Literature see the bibliography below.
And please let us know if you know of any anthologies we have missed. There are lots of possibilities in this arena, and that these anthologies are of great use in inspiring readers and motivating them to act.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ECO POETRY AND ECO LITERATURE ANTHOLOGIES
ECO POETRY ANTHOLOGIES
Abbs, Peter, Earth Songs: A Resurgence Anthology of Contemporary Eco-Poetry (Green Books, 2003).
Coleman, Elizabeth J., Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, 2019).
Corey, Joshua, G. C. Waldrep, The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Boise: Ahsahta Press, 2014).
Day, Lucille Lang, Ruth Nolan, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of CA (Scarlet Tanager Books 2018).
Dungy, Camille, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (Athens:University of Georgia Press, 2009).
Fisher-Wirth, Ann and Laura-Gray Street, The Ecopoetry Anthology (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2013; 3rd printing 2020).
Newberry, Jeff and Brent House The Gulf Stream: Poems of the Gulf Coast, (Snake Nation Press, 2013).
Pack, Robert and Jay Parini, Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry (Bread Loaf Anthology) (Middlebury College Press, 1993)
Perez, Craig Santos, Habitat Threshold (Omnidawn, 2020).
Stewart, Frank, Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges: New Eco-Poetry from China and the U.S. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2019).
Tuckey, Melissa, Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018).
ECO LITERATURE AND OTHER RELATED ANTHOLOGIES
Anderson, Lorraine, Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (Vintage, 2003).
Barber, J., Greenbaum, J., & Marchant, F., eds. Tree Lines: 21st century American poems. (West Hartford, CT: Grayson Books, 2022) (Poems by 135 poets about trees—in cities, backyards, orchards, forests, and field: witnesses to history, figures of contemplation and renewal, and crucial embodiments of our shared, imperiled environment.)
Bradfield, Elizabeth, C. Marie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield, Cascadia: A Field Guide through Art, Ecology, and Poetry (Mountaineers Books, Forthcoming, spring 2003).
Bush, Tori, and Robert Goodman, The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing (University of Florida Press, 2021).
Magrane, Eric, Christopher Cokinos, and Paul Mirocha, The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide (University of Arizona Press, 2016).
Lynch, Tom, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, & O. Alan Weltzien, Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2017).
McLarney, Rose and Laura-Gray Street, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia (University of Georgia Press, 2019)
Sterling, Megan and Kathleen Sullivan, Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis (Littoral Books, 2019)
Day, Lucille Lang, Poetry & Science: Writing Our Way to Discovery (Oakland: Red Tanager Press, 2021). With essays and poems by Elizabeth Bradfield, Allison Hedge Coke, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ann Fisher-Wirth, and Lucille Lang Day.
Holleman, Mary Beth and Anne Coray, Crosscurrent North: Alaskans on the Environement (Poetry and Prose) (University of Alaska Press, 2008)
Lijima, Brenda, Eco Language Reader (Nightboat Books, 2010)
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth and Katharine K. Wilkinson, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (One World, 2020)
Newell, Mary, Bernard Quetchenbach, and Sarah Nolan, Poetics for the More-Than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary (Brooklyn: Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2021).
Thomas, Sheree Renee, Susan Swartwout, and Phillip C. Kolin, Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2013)