Magazine. Poetry. The latest issue of ECOPOETICS (covering 2006-2009) is packed with poetry, prose, criticism, translation, interviews and artwork from nearly eighty contributors. It includes an Australian Eco-Poetics section, guest-edited by Michael Farrell; a Theodore Enslin feature; interviews with Gary Snyder and mIEKAL aND; new work from Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Benjamin Friedlander, Forrest Gander, Joan Retallack, Andrew Schelling, Gary Snyder, and others; bilingual pages from Antonio Ochoa and Angelica Tornero; collapsible poetics by Rodrigo Toscano; Rachel Blau DuPlessis's "Nanifesto"; artwork by Christine Boileau, Patrick Jones, Ray Meeks, Isabelle Pelissier and Stephen Vincent; ten color plates; bark beetle translations, sound walks, field pages, slow texts, dictionaries of imagined flora, and more ...

Author City: BOWDOINHAM, ME USA

Skinner's poetry collections include With Naked Foot (Little Scratchpad Editions, 2009) and POLITICAL CACTUS POEMS (Palm Press, 2005). He founded and edits the journal ECOPOETICS, which features creative-critical intersections between writing and ecology. Skinner also writes ecocriticism on contemporary poetry and poetics: his essays on the poets Ronald Johnson and Lorine Niedecker appeared recently in volumes published by the National Poetry Foundation and by University of Iowa Press. Skinner teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at Bates College, in Central Maine, where he makes his home.

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