Category: environment
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// borderline fortune out today!
There’s lots to report (and invite you to), but I won’t bury the lede: Borderline Fortune officially releases today! If you didn’t have a chance to pre-order a copy, it’s available everywhere books are sold. If you enjoy it, I’d be grateful for your positive ratings and reviews. You’re cordially invited to the virtual launch…
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// dream delivery
My father was a relentless genealogist, adding the names, birthdates, marriages, and other details of more than 30,000 of my relatives and direct ancestors to his database before he died. He was particularly enamored with his maternal grandparents’ lines, as he started the research after his mom, my Grandma Alice, died of pancreatic cancer when…
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// empty mirror, the afterlife, & the london magazine
Today in Empty Mirror: Three poems from my project in progress, Borderline Fortune, with thanks to editor Denise Enck. Two others appeared in Berfrois in October. Gregory Giles and I also have a new film essay in Berfrois—on ghosts, the afterlife, and the construction of meaning and memory: “The Light Moves and Changes Everything;…
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// bye, 2019
May 2020 be the year we rid the White House of an aspiring fascist, collectively exceed our targets for mitigating and repairing environmental destruction, and treat each other with compassion. I spent 2019 writing on those themes, among others: “NCAP Gives Thanks for Farmers,” a blog for the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides…
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// caves & insta
I’m happy to report Berfrois just published the tenth film essay in the occasional series Gregory Giles and I co-created, this time on social media spectatorship and trekking through the world’s largest cave: Straightjacketed into Spectatorship; or, the Image of Seeing a Cave IRL I also recently wrote a blog for the Northwest Center…
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// berfrois: the book
Berfrois: The Book is officially out! If you’ll be in PDX for AWP this week, you can get your copy at the bookfair. Gregory Giles and I do our part to insert environmental commentary into everything with a conversational essay on horror films The Last Winter (2006) and The Thaw (2009), the documentary Chasing…
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// tortured genius
People often said that he finished sentences for me. Well, he did. He was between me and the world. He not only answered the telephone; he finished my sentences. He was the baffle between me and the world at large. —Joan Didion, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold ICYMI, my latest film conversation…
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// the ampersand journals
I’m interrupting the heatwave marathon of blackberry picking to share some equally sweet news: A few weeks ago, Bone & Ink published three excerpts from my project California Building, and this week, Flag + Void released three more. Much gratitude to editors Jessie Lynn McMains and Matthew Moore. I hope you’ll check out these new…
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// interview with carol van strum
It’s my great privilege to share an audio interview of Oregon environmental activist Carol van Strum by novelist, memoirist, and recent Esalen Institute writing teacher Joyce Thompson. Joyce writes: I’m back from a four-day visit with Oregon eco-warrior Carol van Strum, the woman whose relentless activism drove the banning of pesticide use in US national…
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// a season of good news
Portland, Oregon, offers the most dazzling spring of any I’ve experienced. It’s particularly welcome after the coldest February on record in the metro area this year, and it comes with good publishing news, too. In my last post, I shared that the full-length poetry manuscript I’ve been working on the last few years, California Building, was…
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 