Category Archives: poetry
Ecopoetics vs. Nature Poetry
A recent invitation to a conference on “Ecocriticism” has me thinking about some definitions. I’ve always been uncomfortable with the term “nature poetry.” It seems to instantly conjure up images of some effete versifier with a quill pen regaling us … Continue reading
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Tagged ecopoetics, Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, nature poetry, Roethke
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Behind the "Elegy"
This month’s Poem-of-the-Month at CrowVoice.com is a new, unpublished piece called “Elegy.” The cabin where I live (the “Grizfork Studio”) is on the east side of the Yellowstone River in an area of Montana called Paradise Valley. In many ways, … Continue reading
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Those Pesky Picas
Actually, it’s those pesky ornithologists. Today, while researching another book, I found out that The Moon Cracks Open: A Field Guide to the Birds contains some faulty science. Fortunately, it’s a book of poetry, so the science is of questionable … Continue reading
Marc Beaudin 