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Poetry: Ben Howard
The Poem, the Poet:
A native of eastern Iowa, Ben Howard is the author of six books, including Dark Pool (Salmon), Midcentury (Salmon), The Pressed Melodeon (Story Line Press), and Lenten Anniversaries (Cummington). For the past three decades, he has contributed poems, essays, and reviews to literary journals in the United States and beyond, including Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Shenandoah, and the Sewanee Review. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, most recently 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Random House) and The Poetry Anthology (Ivan R. Dee). He teaches English and music at Alfred University in New York.
Irondequoit, Oswego, Canisteo Piling as they will in mid-October on unmown grass and still-intact impatiens,
those leaves could be the emblems of the names
that land on hills or settle into valleysand later take their places on the maps
or in the histories of towns and cities,as though they were indigenous as oak
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Poetry: Maxine Kumin
The Poem, the Poet:
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Maxine Kumin is the author of Quit Monks or Die! (Story Line Press), a murder mystery about sensory-deprivation experiments on primates. Her 15th poetry collection, Jack and Other new Poems (Norton), includes works about man's relationship with the land.Today
Apples are dropping
all over Joppa
a windfall, a bagful
for horses and cattle.–
Geese overheadare baying like beagles.
The pears in the uphill
pasture lie yellow
a litter gone fallow
for stick pins of ground wasps.The deer are in rut.
They race through the swales
and here on the marshyspillway, a yearling
caught drinking, spies slantwise
two humans -- us, frozen
unbreathing, the same pair
who tracked him slobbering
apples today in
our Joppa back pasture.-- Maxine Kumin
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A Thirst We Can't Quench
Journalist Jacques Leslie speaks with NRDC's Daniel Hinerfeld about the threat of global water shortages.
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Letter from Denmark: Interview with Frances Beinecke
Daniel Hinerfeld talks with NRDC President Frances Beinecke about her recent trip to Denmark to explore the success of wind energy.
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Poetry: Elizabeth Dodd
The Poem, the Poet:
Elizabeth Dodd is a poet and essayist who teaches at Kansas State University. Her most recent books are Prospect: Journeys and Landscapes (essays, 2003), which was winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award for nonfiction; and Like Memory, Caverns (poems, 2001).Marginalia
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The color of sulphur,
pine pollen
gilds the edges
of the standing water.
By morning,
each vanished pool
will leave its pale
figuration, outlines
of some former life.2.
When a problem perseveres
without solution,
someone said,
you have to change
your language;
it becomes a fact.3.
We circled the Pond
in steady rainfall, all
the distant hillsides hidden
in the drape of cloud.
The path was lined with wire
fences, limits that preserve,
perversely, something
wild. The wild rises,
falls, and cycles back.
It cycles, mutely, back.4.
How is it, this morning,
in the drooping gray
of rain, new needles
on the pines seem lit, as if
by sunlight? The bright,
new green is burning,
in the face of darkness,
from within.5.
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The Vanishing Honeybee
Interview with beekeeper Jeff Anderson, the owner of California-Minnesota Honey Farms, about the threat from pesticides to bees and the crops they pollinate.
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Helping China Solve Its Environmental Problems
NRDC's Director of Communications, Phil Gutis, interviews Barbara Finamore, director of NRDC's China Program, about the enormous environmental challenges and opportunities posed by China's rapid economic growth.
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Interview with NRDC President Frances Beinecke
NRDC president Frances Beinecke visits New Orleans to learn what lessons Katrina might teach us about our relationship to the natural world.
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Interview with Editor-in-Chief Doug Barasch
Kelly Cox interviews Doug Barasch, editor-in-chief of OnEarth Magazine, about censorship, editorial independence, and the growth of environmental journalism that appeals to a general audience.
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Poetry: Don Bogen
Don Bogen recites his poem "June Song."
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