Why Queer Nature?
I believe we all carry places inside us: biomes of identity and imagination central and individual to each of us. Mine happens to be the hilly fields of a Minnesota dairy Continue reading
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The Age of the Possible
There, at the bottom of being, where the water that makes aaathis planet a world aaaaaais the color of spacetime the octopus— with her body-shaped mind and her Continue reading
17 Poetry Collections to read during Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month, and we’re back with another curated list of poetry recommendations from Orion poetry editor Camille Dungy and friends. From Trinidad to Kabul to the Arctic and Continue reading
Letters from Two Gardens
IN THE LATE JULY swelter and dragonfly buzz of summer, poets Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay began a correspondence of poems — sent the old-fashioned way, through the mail. Aimee wrote Continue reading
What Hangs on Trees
I AM SIMULTANEOUSLY enchanted and haunted by trees. As a child, I was a tomboyish tree-climbing tree lover—a daydreamer held in mahogany arms. If I went missing, my family knew where Continue reading