2023 Updated Bibliography of Eco Poetry and Eco Literature Anthologies

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ECO POETRY ANTHOLOGIES AND RELATED COLLECTIONS

Updated, April, 2023

ECOPOETRY 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, and 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-Worth, 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).

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).

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).

Uschuk, Pamela, Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century (poetry and prose) (Tucson: Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts, 2nd edition 2020).

RELATED ANTHOLOGIES


Anderson, Lorraine, Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature 

Barba, Susan, Shapton Leanne, American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide (Harry N. Abrams, 2022)

Barber, J. Greenbaum, and F. Marchant, eds., Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems (West Hartford, Ct.: Grayson Books, 2022)

Bradfield, Elizabeth, C. Marie Furhman and Derek Sheffiedl, Cascadia Field Guide, Art, Ecology, Poetry (Mountaineers Books, 2023)

Bush, Tori and Robert Goodman, The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing (University of Florida Press, 2021)

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 Environment (Poetry and Prose) (University of Alaska Press, 2008)

Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth and Katharine K. Wilkinson, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis  (One World, 2020)

Kimmerer, Robin Wall, Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Milkweed, 2020)

Lijima, Brenda, Eco Language Reader (Nightboat Books, 2010)

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).

Magrane, Eric, Christopher Cokinos, and Paul Mirocha, The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide (University of Arizona Press, 2016)

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)

Elizabeth J. Coleman, 4/19/23

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