Category: press
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// crab creek review
I’m excited to share that the latest issue of Crab Creek Review (2018, Vol. I) can now be ordered online or purchased from a number of booksellers in the Pacific Northwest. I’m grateful to poetry editor Martha Silano for including an excerpt from my project California Building. Buying a copy of the issue means supporting…
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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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// empty mirror & in bed
In keeping with the season of good news, I’m excited to share two more recent publications: four excerpts from California Building up today in Empty Mirror, and a standalone prose poem up this week in Queen Mob’s Teahouse for its “In Bed With…” series. I’m grateful to the editors for giving a home to my…
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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…
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// bodies in thin air
ICYMI, Greg and I published the sixth conversational essay in our occasional series for Berfrois—this time about valuing property over people, the limits of revenge, and the possibilities of resistance: I don’t think we can maintain our humanity when we dehumanize others, warehouse them, and pay our taxes to agents of the state to…
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// robots for the end of the world
Today in Berfrois: New adventures in subverting expository form—the fifth installment in my occasional conversational essay series with Gregory Giles is up. Throwback to everyone’s favorite ’90s environmental cartoon (?), FernGully. Improbably Sentimental Robots; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Babies and Embrace the Apocalypse Also, lucky you if you’ll be in the…
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// elephants wouldn’t wonder
Today in Berfrois: the fourth conversational essay in my occasional environmental and food justice film series with Gregory Giles. We discuss means vs. ends in animal rights and horror—and whether it’s OK to draw parallels among different kinds of carnage. Elephants Wouldn’t Lie Awake Wondering; or, Cognitive Dissonance and the Carnivore ### Also, ICYMI,…
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// the bottom of lake powell
If you haven’t been following along at home, Greg Giles and I accidentally started an occasional conversational essay series on films with environmental and food justice themes, and Berfrois editor Russell Bennetts has been kind enough to keep publishing it. Russell seems like a good guy. I’ve never met him and have no idea…
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// a sovereign food systems reader
The Institute for Food & Development Policy turned forty this year, and to mark that milestone, researcher Tanya Kerssen and I co-edited the anthology Food First: Selected Writings from 40 Years of Movement Building—with thirty-two selections from Food First’s library and a foreword by founder Frances Moore Lappé. You can finally order your copy here.…
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// imperfect yields
Early digital video, the aging feminine, and whether Kerouac got it right—film-obsessed writer/musician Gregory Giles and I published a second conversation in our occasional series on works with environmental and food justice themes. Our Cosmetically Imperfect Yields; or, Agnès Varda’s Loose Grip on Gleaning …
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 