Poetry, Ecology, and the Reappropriation of Lived Space

by Laura Elrick

Poetry

This talk was originally written for a panel on Ecopoetics organized by Brenda Iijima and Evelyn Reilly and held on January 21, 2006 at the Bowery Poetry Club. A compilation of writings from the event and beyond, entitled )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)), will be published this November by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.

The Ballad of the Girly Man

by Charles Bernstein

Poetry

For Felix

The truth is hidden in a veil of tears/The scabs of the mourners grow thick with fear…

Faith is a Marionette

by Simona Schneider

Poetry

The dragonflies were/was was to discover/now/wings.