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  • A Human Thrush and other nature poems

    “A Human Thrush” and “Wilderness/Frontier/Desert” have been published online at “The Nature of Our Times” Gallery. Two other poems from my herbarium were reprinted: “The Nettle Whisperer” (also published in The Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation) and an old standard, “Dandelion Root Tea.” All are linked at https://natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/tag/karina-lutz/. The Nature of Our Times is in…

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  • Encircling Earth, The Center of Our Gravity

    I. Standing, feet naked to the earth. Walking, the sensation of flow from heel along the outer edge of sole to outer ball, inner ball, the rhythm of it. Like the sleek shifting weight of a running cougar: the ripple and the grace in the movement. Touching ground, bending knee, taking weight, pushing off, finding…

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  • Seeking submissions of poems to Deep Times

    Again, we welcome your submissions of poetry to Deep Times: A Journal of the Work that Reconnects on the themes evoked by Joanna Macy and colleagues’ Work That Reconnects: gratitude for Earth and the ecological/social justice movement, The Great Turning, honoring our pain for the world, deep time (thinking like a mountain) or the Fourth…

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  • Chestnut, elm, maple

    “Chestnut, elm, maple” published in a new journal dedicated to the Great Turning, Deep Times: http://journal.workthatreconnects.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Deep-Times-Spring-2016.pdf I am the poetry editor for the journal, and welcome your submissions of poetry on the themes evoked by the Work That Reconnects: coming from gratitude, honoring our pain for the world, systems thinking, deep time (thinking like a…

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