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// system change in lima
Today is the third day of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference of the parties in Lima, one of a string of major political events around climate this year. I have a new piece on FoodFirst.org about the fundamental contradiction between binding free trade agreements and nonbinding emissions-reduction agreements, using…
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// today in phenome
Today Poor Claudia’s Phenome published four excerpts from my new manuscript, other sections of which have appeared in Berfrois and sparkle + blink—and are forthcoming in There. The first line—We wanted to believe there was another way to nourish ourselves—comes from Frances Moore Lappé’s introduction to Masanobu Fukuoka’s natural farming meditation The One-Straw Revolution. I…
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// october food activism
October holds multiple events important to those pushing for equitable access to food. Last week included World Food Day and the award of the Food Sovereignty Prize. Yesterday marked the first time that Feeding the 5,000 held an event in the U.S.—just a few blocks from my home in Oakland—after much successful organizing against…
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// people’s climate march & the green arcade
Food Sovereignty & Climate Justice In anticipation of the People’s Climate March in New York City on 9/21, I wrote a piece with Eric Holt-Giménez for HuffPo on the intersections between food and climate movements. If you’re a West Coaster interested in participating in actions around the UN Climate Summit, there will also be a…
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// spring in berfrois
When I started teaching community college, my mentor teacher said, “You don’t know what seeds you are planting, or when they will grow, or how they will grow.” I left teaching for the finca, where I planted squash, peanuts, sunflowers, carrots, lettuce; transplanted sesame and cacao; and harvested bananas and citrus that someone…
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// quiet lightning 3/7
If you didn’t make it to AWP, or you did but didn’t get enough literary chaos, or you got enough & are ready for more, check out Quiet Lightning this Friday, a literary mixtape curated by Evan Karp & Sarah Ciston. I’ll be closing out the night with a poem from my new project,…
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// poetry center & upcoming events
A few reading/event/announcement things: Melissa Eleftherion and Elise Ficarra have launched a great project: a community-curated chapbook archive for the SF State Poetry Center. Read more about the concept on the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog. The archive is up to thirty contributions, including my out-of-print Tarpaulin Sky chapbook, Forever No Lo. # I’m excited to…
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// the dust of a tuning fork
I flew home via El Salvador in the middle of the night after spending the last month working on an organic finca in Costa Rica. More on that another time. It was gratifying to learn that sped continued to have a life of its own, though I roamed the jungle plantation with a…
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// bleakney on sped
Many thanks to Elaine Bleakney for reading & reflecting on sped this week. She writes, “This is such agile, high-risk and refreshing work … What I feel by the end of sped is this force stepping to the side of ego: a strange new (to me) listener-animator in poetry.” Check out the full post here.…
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// review, interview, reading
My early anniversary gift was an unexpected Facebook message from Walla Walla vintner-poet Katrina Roberts, letting me know that sped gets a favorable review in her recently published Los Angeles Review of Books essay (second section). The piece also discusses new work from BOA and Belladonna. And I got a text from Mutiny Radio’s La…
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 