HERE: Poems for the Planet

I. WHERE YOU’D WANT TO COME FROM: POEMS FOR OUR PLANET Nezhukumatathil, Aimee: Invitation Dawes, Kwame: Shook Foil Abani, Chris: Descent 2 Kho’I, Esma’il: Image of Kindness May, Jamaal: There Are Birds Here Arthur, James: Wind Uribe, Kirmen: Don’t Make It a Choice Logmansbo, Valdemar A.: Spring Song d’Aquino, Alfonso: Black Bee Corpi, Lucha: Letter to Arturo Grotz, Jennifer: Poppies Geldman, Mordechai: Almost Flowers Valentine, Jean: The Valley Calderazzo, John: Douglas Fir Falling Berry, Wendell: The Peace of Wild Things II. THE GENTLE LIGHT THAT VANISHES: OUR ENDANGERED WORLD Seibles, Tim: First Verse McCallum, Shara: Why Madwoman Shouldn’t Read the News Brathwaite, Kamau: Colombe Diaz, Natalie: How the Milky Way Was Made Mead, Jane: Money Olds, Sharon: Ode to the Last Thirty-Eight Trees in New York City Visible From This Window Hicok, Bob: Hold your breath: a song of climate change Kane, Joan Naviyuk: The Straits Pusteria, Fabio: Star, Meteor, Some Shooting Thing Medina, Pablo: The Floating Island Trethaway, Natasha: Theories of Time and Space Doshi, Tishani: Lament II Naficy, Majid: To a Snail Hahn, Kimiko: The Fever Dooley, Maura: Still Life with Sea Pinks and High Tide Merwin, W.S.: Thanks Young Patricia: Ruin and Beauty Waldman, Ann: Anthropocene Blues III. AS IF THEY’D NEVER BEEN: POEMS FOR THE ANIMALS Sholl, Betsy: To a Bat Fallen in the Street Atwood, Margaret: Elegy for the Giant Tortoises Brown, Nickole: A Prayer to Talk to Animals Macari, Anne Marie: Migration South Gonzales, Rigoberto: The Slaughterhouse Kasichke, Laura: Pregnant at the All-Night Supermarket Saje, Natasha: We Saw No Caribou Smith, Tracy K.: A Hunger So Honed Griffiths, Rachel Eliza: The Human Zoo Livingston, Chip: Punta del Este Pantoum Qin, Shang: Rooster Alexei, Sherman: Small Ceremonies IV. THE OCEAN WITHIN THEM: VOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE Bannon, Griffin: How to Be a Hawk Arrastia-Nowak, Betye: I Am Like a Caterpillar Roe, Maia: Midmorning, Summer Rain Tahajian, Talin: Variations on a Mountain Skink Beckwith, Julia: every sunrise is a sunset, somewhere Keener, Olivia: The Peaceful Lake Adler-Bermudez, Ekiway: Quetzalcoatl Brown, Lauryn: Voice Friedman, Katie: Haiku V. LIKE YOU ARE NEW TO THE WORLD: FROM INSPIRATION TO ACTION Bringhurst, Robert: The Occupation Hass, Robert: Meditation at Lagunitas Francis, Vivee: A Small Poem Alvarez, Julia: Bilingual Sestina McLarney, Rosa: After the Removal of Thirty Types… Kaplinski, Jaan: From childhood on Hillman, Brenda: The Seeds Talk Back to Monsanto Huerta, David: Before the Protest in the Street is Dispersed Chincangana, Fredy: Handful of Earth Georges, Danielle Legros: Intersection Rajendra, Cecil: My Message Barquet, Jesus J.: Robinson Danladi, Chekwube O.: My Mother’s Sister Schools Me On Her Garden Brimhall, Traci: Fledgling Snyder, Gary: For the Children Baberoon, Gabeba: My Tongue Softens on the Other Name Gay, Ross: Poem for My Child if Ever You Shall Be Roberson, Ed: be careful Page, P.K.: Planet Earth