Every politically engaged person should have a garden. Where a tract of land is inaccessible, as tracts of land are inaccessible for most people of the world—because of the economics, and politics, and access issues that are the disparities that have driven me to become politically active—join or organize a community garden,…
In an elegy for her past selves, a beloved naturalist and essayist burns letters, listens to swans, and confronts the basic state of animal life: desire.
Reading Pablo Neruda’s Stones of the Sky, a poet remembers the pull of a moon rock, news of resistance found in the Mohawk Nation’s Akwesasne Notes, and the genesis of her craft.