Category: press
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// double fake-out
Today in Berfrois, a conversation with my partner in crime, writer/musician/film devotee Gregory Giles, on how being cavalier can give rise to meaningful activism: Luc Moullet’s Double Fake-Out; or, Tracking Food Sovereignty in the ’70s ICYMI, I did an interview with Berfrois editor Russell Bennetts earlier this year, and the journal has also published…
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// 40 years fighting hunger
Since early 2015, I’ve been co-editing Food First’s 40th anniversary retrospective anthology, Food First: Selected Writings from 40 Years of Movement Building, with research coordinator Tanya Kerssen. Having spent several months selecting and organizing excerpts, we’re moving into the proofing and design phase. We now have a cover, which I’m excited to share: My…
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// big ag on twitter
Today on FoodFirst.org, my close reading of Big Six agribusiness social media strategy: Big Ag’s Fight for Twitter Credibility There are common interests across corporate enterprises, so it makes sense that agribusiness, tobacco, and oil companies are linked to some of the same PR firms, lobbyist “think tanks,” and other front organizations. How can…
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// queen mob’s teahouse
Today on Queen Mob’s Teahouse, a conversation with Russell Bennetts about aggressive earnestness and, well, you be the judge. And no, those aren’t our real bodies. Also, in case you missed it, Bennetts was behind another recent project: Jeff Bezos wrote a poetry ebook, and I helped. …
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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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// 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…
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 