Emergence magazine initiated a collaboration between Katie Holten and Forrest Gander that launched them together into the redwood forests of California. Katie was also doing research on her own, and Forrest was trailing poet-biologist Maya Khosla into large tracts of post-fire California forests, where Khosla was documenting the return of wild animals—among the first of which is typically the black-backed woodpecker. If the burned forests aren’t turned over to the timber industry to clear-cut, they quickly rebound. Katie’s work evolved into her book "The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape." Forrest’s work was published as "Twice Alive: An Ecology of Intimacy." Forrest Gander on "Forest" |
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"Becoming a Writer at Shakespeare & Co."
"George was not an ordinary boss and Shakespeare and Company was not an ordinary bookshop. When I worked there it was barely a bookshop at all. More of a doss house for traveling poets in search of whatever poets are searching for in Paris. Poems, perhaps. If so, they were likely to be disappointed. In my experience poems tend to hide from clichés, rather than actively seeking them out."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Tiana Nobile on A. Van Jordan's M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems
"By juxtaposing the MacNolia narrative poems with snapshots of historical figures, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A considers the ways in which racism shaped Black daily existence and one individual’s life’s trajectory. Thus, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A is not only a story of one disenchanted woman or crushed little girl; it is the story of a generation. Jordan pushes me to think about how language impacts history, meaning, and people’s lived experiences." |
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