New Zealand in Sunlight – Photo from NASA Poetry Lab piece by Julianne Warren Introduction Studying birds helped me earn a Ph.D. in conservation biology. I’ve also written an intellectual biography of the twentieth-century American ecologist and author of A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold. My book, Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey, unfolds his work progressing toward […] Read More
The Poetry Lab: Merwin Studies Project & Founder Aaron Moe, PhD
Our next installment of The Poetry Lab focuses in on an incredible, independent effort to explore all aspects of W.S. Merwin’s ecologically minded poetry and poetics. Merwin Studies is an annual journal whose mission is to circulate discussions of Merwin’s work through wide audiences. The project recently published it’s first volume in 2013, which can be read online […] Read More
The Poetry Lab: Writers Share Their Favorite Merwin Poem – Alexander Maksik
In certain installments of The Poetry Lab, we ask a writers who have appeared in The Green Room to share their favorite W.S. Merwin poems…. My Favorite W.S. Merwin Poem – Alexander Maksik “Berryman” was one of the first of William’s poems that I read, and one I’ve had above various desks, in various homes. I liked the […] Read More
