Happy Earth Day! I am so excited and thrilled to say my ecopoem "Anxious Behavior" is @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social's Poem of the Month for April! I was stunned when I heard the news, and I am still blown away by this incredible honor!
I've got a new kinda-anti-ecopoem-new-father-in-the-middle-of-the-night piece in Issue 20 of the inimitable @ButchersDogMag. Thank you so much for the creative editorial conversations @_dodo - you are an editor that always goes above and beyond in these straitened times.
How does it begin? With the piper’s drone with the coarse fabric of the land… Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem 3/4 www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/...
In this article, I reflect on my own practice in translating Duncan Bàn Macintyre’s eighteenth-century Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain, into a twenty-first century ‘ecopoem’. Macintyre’s Moladh Bei...
Six years ago I imagined a poetry awards show where poets get awards for best narrative poem, best lyric, best love poem, best ecopoem, best docupoem, best flarf poem, best conceptual poem, best rhyming poem, best free verse poem, best sonnet, best sestina, best elegy, best dramatic monologue, etc.
I recently recorded an episode for CTSB-TV's Solo Creatives of the Berkshires program. I read from my books, Dwelling: an ecopoem, Falling Up: A Memoir of Second Chances, Azorean Suite, and Wine-Dark Sea. Have a look: youtu.be/PUg2rwah_60?...
For #NationalPoetryDay 2023 I'm sharing my new eco-poem 'Refugium' written in response to this year's theme. nationalpoetryday.co.uk #poem #poetry #ecopoem #ecopoetry #poetrycommunity #refuge #climatetragedy #climategrief #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
