A selection of recordings focused on the environment and climate change. In the spirit of Earth Day, these poems catalog environmental destruction, lament losses in order to prompt change, and celebrate the natural world as well as the place of humans in it.
Dungy, Camille T. "Characteristics of Life." Poem-A-Day. The Academy of American Poets, 3 Oct. 2012. Web. 28 Nov. 2016.
Hillman, Brenda. "On a Day, in the World." Kenyon Review 37.5 (2015): 40. Print.
From an unpublished manuscript titled Fire: Poems Against Pandemic.
Uncollected.
Differs slightly from published version.
greathouse, torrin a. "Anthropocene Anxiety Disorder (Our whole world is burning...)." The Rumpus, 4 April 2020. Web. Viewed 24 March 2023.
Hass, Robert. Time and Materials. New York: Ecco, 2007.
Merwin, W.S. The Lice. New York: Atheneum, 1967.
Poem by Lila Zemborain, translated by Mónica de la Torre.
Zemborain, Lila. Mauve Sea-Orchids. Tr. Rosa Alcalá and Mónica de la Torre. New York: Belladonna Books, 2007.
Differs slightly from published version.
Harjo, Joy. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. New York: Norton, 2015.
Spahr, Juliana. "Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache." Tarpaulin Sky 3.2 (2005): n. pag. Web. 09 September 2010.
Poem read by David Baker; musical setting performed by the River Song Quintet. Musical setting is unpublished; poem differs slightly from published version.
Baker, David. Scavenger Loop. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Differs from published versions.
Burk, Wendy. Tree Talks: Southern Arizona. Lockport, NY: Delete Press, 2016.
Hirshfield, Jane. "Mosses." Scientific American, vol. 327, no. 5, November 2022, p. 28.
Deming, Alison Hawthorne. Rope. New York: Penguin, 2009.
Read and translated by Anthony Cody. Differs slightly from published version.
Herrera, Juan Felipe. Akrilica. 1989. Edited and translated by Farid Matuk, Carmen Giménez, and Anthony Cody. Noemi Press, 2022.
Zepeda, Ofelia. Jewed 'I-Hoi/Earth Movements. Tucson, AZ: Kore Press, 1997.
Differs from published version.
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee. Oceanic. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2018.
