Join Poetry Daily Editorial Board member Brian Teare for more poetry and conversation about ecopoetics with our second intenational panel of authors and activists.
"American poetry is both very old and very new. It stretches back tens of thousands of years to the oral songs and stories of Native nations, Indigenous peoples, aboriginal tribal cultures. And it is as up-to-date as protest poems posted on social media one hasty character at a time. There is no doubt that a central strand of our poetry traces to Puritanism and the Puritan code, the import of classical and English metaphysical forms applied to the New World."
"My poem responds to dioxin in part by reflecting on the complex history of the chemical as well as my own potential exposure history. I spent a significant portion of my life living and traveling in central and northern Ontario, Canada, never far from pulp and paper mills and their distinctive sulfurous smell and insidious environmental footprint."
