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Thanks so much much to Rosaliene Bacchus for this thoughtful review.
"Mother Earth clamors to be heard. All is not well. Our individual beliefs and alternate realities mean nothing in the grand scheme of our collective lives. If we are to avert climate and environmental disaster, we must connect with each other and with the other living beings with whom we share this planet. Doing so with grace is a good place to start."
Read Rosaliene Bacchus's full review oh Here: Poetry for the Planet here: https://rosalienebacchus.blog/2021/07/18/on-a-saturday-in-the-anthropocene-by-american-poet-elizabeth-j-coleman/
The Value and Use of Ecopoetry Anthologies in a Time of Environmental Crisis - AWP Conference event Saturday, March 26, 2022
Please join us for this AWP Conference event Saturday, March 26, 2022.
https://www.elizabethjcoleman.com/blog/awp-con-2022
Elizabeth will be moderating a panel on Eco Poetry Anthologies with poets/anthologists Ruth Nolan, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Craig Santos Perez, PhD., and Laura-Gray Street.
@ruthnolan @TerrapinBooks @craigsperez @awpwriter @RClgstreet
Five ecopoetry anthology editors will discuss editing and publicizing anthologies (international, national, or local) encouraging action on our environmental crisis and environmental injustice that can help readers feel a sense of both urgency and hope. Some of us have collaborated with scientific or environmental organizations, donating royalties and developing action guides. We will discuss organizing the book, finding a publisher, and working with the publisher to develop a unique point of view.
Union of Concerned Scientists Poetry of Science Events
Elizabeth was one of the poets invited to the UCS event Poetry of Science, on October 2021.
The Union of Concerned Scientists is a national nonprofit organization founded more than 50 years ago by scientists and students at MIT. Follow UCS @UCSUSA on Twitter and on Instagram @unionofconcernedscientists.
Full Recording - Union of Concerned Scientists Poetry of Science Events
The full recording of the UCS event Poetry of Science, on October 2021. A virtual conversation among five contemporary poets whose work explores science and our relationship to the earth.
Speakers:
• Elizabeth J. Coleman (moderator, editor of HERE: Poems for the Planet)
• Kimiko Hahn
• Jane Hirshfield
• Jenny Qi
• Sarah Sala
Including a special appearance by Maria Melendez Kelson.
@kimiko.hahn @PoetryFound @JQiii @MKelsonAuthor @UCSUSA
Minyan Magazine
Two Poems by Elizabeth J. Coleman published in Minyan Magazine, a Literary Magazine in Support of the Jewish Community
Minyan Magazine is an online quarterly literary magazine run by Liz Marlow. Their mission is to publish the finest poetry and flash fiction by Jewish writers and their allies.
@LizRMarlow and @MinyanMag
Nightly Migration for Channel Magazine
Virtual launch of Issue 5 of Channel, a literary magazine born out of the climate crisis, publishing poetry and prose with an environmentalist perspective.
Elizabeth J. Coleman’s reading of 'Nightly Migration' begins at the 01:17:24 time mark.
@CGadenGilmartin @eamurtough @Channel_LitMag @IrishWritersCtr @SYPIreland
Here: Poems for the Planet
Here: Poems for the Planet is a lovesong to a planet in crisis, with foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and an activist guide by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Summoning a chorus of 128 diverse contemporary poetic voices, from prize-winning poets to young people, this anthology approaches our environmental crisis with a sense of urgency and hopefulness.
ISBN-10: 1556595417
ISBN-13: 978-1556595417
The Fifth Generation
The Fifth Generation, contends with what it means to truly belong, as the concentric rings of our commingled existence ripple outward. This is a book of the most tender intimacies, one in which the speaker reminds us that we are not only members of families but also the bound residents of cities, farms, cultures, histories, and nations, that each of us must finally see as home the whole peaceable kingdom. -Kathleen Graber
ISBN-10: 1941550983
ISBN-13: 978-1941550984
Pythagore, amoureux | Pythagoras in Love
Rachel Hadas, author of THE GOLDEN ROAD (Northwestern University Press), says: "Lee Slonimsky's beautiful sonnets in PYTHAGORAS IN LOVE are chastened by the consistent austerity of their limits. Yet these restrictions of vocabulary and imagery are also enriching and generative. Elizabeth J. Coleman's elegant French translation, conveying the burnished spareness of the original, sometimes recalls the elemental lyricism of Yves Bonnefoy."
ISBN-10: 1610191080
ISBN-13: 978-1610191081
Let My Ears Be Open
A poetry chapbook by Elizabeth J. Coleman.
ISBN-10: 1622292235
ISBN-13: 978-1622292233
here: poems for the planet
Our planet is in crisis. As readers, publishers, and writers, we ask ourselves: In this pivotal moment, what is our role?
Here: Poems for the Planet answers this question through poetry and a practical guide to activism, inviting readers to become inspired—take in a new breath, and a new perspective—and then take action.
Here begins with a foreword from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and contains poems from more than 125 voices, including U.S. Poet Laureates, Pulitzer Prize-winners, and youth poets, and HERE culminates in a 37-page guide from the Union of Concerned Scientists. The publication date is Earth Day, 2019
Here will be distributed to every member of Congress, and copies donated copies to programs in need. As editor, I am donating all royalties to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
