David Abram
Orion Magazine
The Air Aware
Mind and mood on a breathing planet
Stephen Burt, Daisy Fried, Major Jackson, Emily Warn
Poetry Foundation
Does Poetry Have a Social Function?  
Billy Collins
Poetry180
How to Read a Poem Out Loud
Brian Doyle
The Greatest Nature Essay Ever
Orion Magazine
Jannie Dresser
Examiner.com
Nature's Solace in the Poems of John Clare, The Original Earth Day Poet

Finding Poetry Where Ye May
Dwight Garner
The New York Times
W. S. Merwin:  Finding Home and Inspiration in the World of Nature
John Holt
The New York Times
The Case for Memorizing Poetry
Linda Lear
George Washington University
Rachel Carson and the Awakening of Environmental Consciousness
John Lundberg
The Huffington Post
Why You Should Read Poetry
Christopher Nield
(The Epoch Times)
The Antidote—Classic Poetry for Modern Life:
A reading of 'The Woodspurge' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
William S. Reese
Collecting Herman Melville
Carl Rollyson
Charlotte Observer
Shining poetry springs from family darkness
A Review of Lyndall Gordon's new biography of Emily Dickinson
Suzanne Tobias
Wichita Eagle
Now, More Than Ever, We Need Poetry
 
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Traveller at Sunset, Newport Beach, CA;
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