Poetry of the Anthropocene

(This poem is on a different topic than climate, but it is what I've got. It was accepted to a poetry journal pending revision. I need a LOT of help in revising this. It has sat for ages, and I feel daunted. I'm not seeing the forest for the trees. I look forward to your feedback.) Virginia Woolf on Kavenaugh On the Saturday Kavenaugh was steam rolled onto the US Supreme Court despite the testimony of women he had sexually assaulted while he gleefully laughed in his narcissistic sadism, I was studying Virginia Woolf’s suicide. I was surrounded, covened together with 13 mostly grey-haired women. Women’s Studies professors. English professors. We were all guided by who should have been honored as Poet Laureate while she was still in full health, lesbian writer, teacher, poet Judith Barrington. 3 hours of wise woman group mind communing, pondering Virginia Woolf’s suicide note and her dying request t...

Dear Friends of Poetry: I am hoping that you are well during this very trying and difficult time.  I wanted to let you know that unfortunately right now it will be very difficult for me to continue on the blog. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, overnight I had to learn how to do telehealth in my practice, get things set up, and am now dealing with very distressed patients affected by the virus. I have limited bandwidth! I am hoping things will eventually change and as things settle I will jump back onto the blog. I hope that you and yours stay safe and healthy. Wishing you peace as we deal with this crisis, may the Earth continue the healing she is doing right now. Donna

Nightly Training My three-legged dog floats On coyote queries Rain taste dark sage resins. Rising on dusk wind gusts, Strung between mud and stars, His nose drinks a river. “Come in , you!” I call. Grounded, his black eyes snap,                   He shrugs,   “Come in, you !”

Welcome to our new blog, Poetry of the Anthropocene! The hope is that we will post new poems once a month, and then comment on each others’ work. It is so important to continue the work of eco-literature, and I look forward to our continued endeavors! Do not feel pressure if there is a time that you cannot post - life gets busy and we can give each other lots of grace.