Video

Readings

This gallery features video messages from contributors to The Nature of Our Times. In recognition of the completion of the draft of the first national assessment of U.S. lands, waters, and wildlife, these poets share their appreciation for the The Nature Record authors whose expertise and dedication have helped bring this landmark effort forward.

Mosses

Jane Hirshfield

Mushroom Hunting at the Ski Basin

Arthur Sze

Bats French-Kiss with Mouthfuls of Blood

Luisa A. Igloria

Pledge

David Hassler

Some Notes on Healing, Salish Sea

Aileen Cassinetto

Progress by Elegy

Andrea England

For the House Finches

Ann E. Wallace

Oiled Bird Season

Anna Leahy

Wonder Enough

Barbara Sabol

Why do I go to Old Spanish Fort

Brad Vogel

Knotweed Triolet

Carla Schwartz

Attack of the Storm-King

Cassandra Bousquet

Earth, Sometimes I Try to Play it Casual

Catherine Pierce

Leaves on the Tree

Catherine Puma

for the fir tree hanging by thin desire

Ching-In Chen

Fractals

Chris Baral

Petition

Dina Elenbogen

Fishing with an Osprey

Ed Meek

Mother’s Day with Birdbath and Wildfires

Elizabeth Jacobson

Notes from a Swamp Guide

Elizabeth Kuelbs

Chrysaora quinquecirrha

Emily Knight

Stumbling Through the Labyrinth

Janet Ruth

Kingfisher, or How Certain Autumn Days Advocate for a Significant Realignment of the Human Project

Jeff Gundy

Common eider

Jennifer Browne

Poem With No Trees In It

Jesse Holth

White Buffalo Calf Woman

Jessica Jones

Because a Redwood Grove

Joe Cottonwood

Choir of Flies

Joel Allegretti

Blues Haiku

John Shoptaw

Seashore Summer Solstice

Joyce Ritchie

Mayslake

Karen An-hwei Lee

Wilderness Frontier Desert

Karina Lutz

The Final Oyster

Kate Lewis

What It Turns To

Kathryn Berti

Swish of Land, Will You Grip Me

Kelly Fine

Bermuda Fireworm

Kim Roberts Meikle

Bycatch

Kim Steutermann Rogers

Because we story ourselves in water

Kimberly Blaeser

Lake Mendota: Four Walks

Krissy Kludt

This is Serious

Kyle Potvin

Common Ground

Laura Grace Weldon

To the Person Who Saw the Last Icecap Melt

Laurel Maxwell

Ars Poetica: Great Blue Heron

Leah Umansky

Dark Energy

Lesley Wheeler

the Clinch, three views

Lisa Coffman

Bull Thistle

Lisa Rosenberg

It’s the Smallest Things

Loralee Clark

maidenhair

M. Frost

theory of the universe

Madeleine Bohn

The Witnesses

Marjorie Maddox

Shall I Lichen Thee

Martin Settle

Observation Log

Maw Shein Win

I translate the sea

Maya Zeff

Some Call This Flower Devil's Bouquet

Mobi Warren

Water Remembers Where It’s Been

Moudi Sbeity

Too Short

Naoko Fujimoto

The Naming

Nickole Brown

Never Describe the Sky as Azure

Philip Metres

Weightless, a Great Silence

Ralph Earle

Raising Glaciers

Rebecca Brock

For This I Walk Outside

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Right Whales

Sally Bliumis-Dunn

106 Degrees in Springtime

Susan Browne

Copse

Suzanne Frischkorn

Paper Gravity

Yvonne Blomer

Measurements Will Not Be in English

Zosimo Quibilan Jr.

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