[Plant Poetics and Beyond] To begin, I invite you to close you eyes. Be seated in a comfortable position. First, take a deep inhale in. Exhale with a loud sigh…
[Plant Poetics and Beyond] Context I’m going to share the title poem from Withness, my book manuscript in progress. I see this book as part of a larger project of…
[Plant Poetics and Beyond] Part 1. In Which the Issue is Discovered The issue is : how to be within the literal/literary when it is all around us In…
Janice Lee & Andrea Quaid In one sense, the work featured in Plant Poetics and Beyond comes from the June 2019 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Conference…
I was driving the old blue Volvo northbound on U.S. Route 89 through Chino Valley, bound for Las Vegas, while feeling content just to drift in and out of the…
The last time I belonged there, I straddled the steam hissing off the asphalt with my right foot on the curb at Charlotte Douglas International and my left on the rubber mat…
Two armed guards with tasers and guns strapped to their hips will search our packages and purses as we enter my synagogue to attend services on Rosh Hashanah. A guard…
WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
That first menstruation was a shock. Bleary eyed, I woke up in the middle of the night and saw the blood, spotty and sticky and dark—yet undoubtedly from my own…
Paintings by Miriam Feldman According to Wikipedia, a jumper (person), in police and media parlance, is a person who plans to fall or jump from a potentially deadly height, sometimes…
WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
Image Credit: Aaron Brame 1994. I drove around Memphis in my little green car with the big dent on the side. The speakers shook as Kathleen Hanna screamed, Suck my…
In the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma, my best friend and I rode our bikes to CVS, which was closed. We rode to the bank so she could take twenty dollars…
Image Credit: Charles Henry May Prologue A person sits in front of a screen in a small office. On the screen, an image of a figure, standing outside of…