"Perhaps their Rapture prophecy is a kind of biblical lullaby to calm their environmental terrors," says #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Brenda Peterson.
Read her latest substack piece 'End Times for Trump and the GOP.' substack.com/home/post/p-...
Congratulations to #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp who was nominated as one of the 5 finalists for Top Author by the 2026 New Mexico Entertainment Awards.
Camp has authored 8 poetry collections and was the New Mexico Poet Laureate 2022-2025.
www.nmentertains.com/nme-awards-v...
"This amazing, almost entirely overlooked gateway into the Sacred Feminine is the original language of the Goddesses: the pulse of poetic meters," says @anniefinch.com, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow. Read more on the Feminism & Religion blog. ⬇️
#Poetry
feminismandreligion.com/2026/03/18/m...
Patricia Spears Jones, photo credit, Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Congratulations to #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Patricia Spears Jones @pksj51.bsky.social, who was among the recent recipients of the Rauschenberg Centennial Award. The award recognizes Jones' excellence in the Writing category. www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/news/robert-...
#BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp will be leading a poetry workshop at the Sun & Moon Poetry Festival happening May 15–17 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. www.ohiopoetryassn.org/sun-moon-fes...
Book cover - Holding Our Brokenness a gathering of poems, showing flowers and fallen trees.
Congratulations to #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Elizabeth Cunningham on her new book of poetry: 'Holding Our Brokenness: A Gathering of Poems.' The volume is a reflection on grief, resilience, and what it means to remain human in difficult times. #Poetry #Poems bookshop.org/p/books/hold...
A tap too quick,
A tiny space misplaced,
and the whole cosmos misfires.
So maybe—
read and
tread
more carefully.
Live as if
each letter,
each small silence,
is scared
sacred.
"Auto-Correcting gGod"
#Poem by #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow Tom Montgomery Fate
www.christiancentury.org/contributor/...
Congratulations to #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp, who will be reading from her new book: Is Is Enough (2026) during the #AWP26 conference in Baltimore. Her book was published by Texas A&M University Press. @tamupress.bsky.social @awpwriter.org www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...
#BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Petra Kuppers will be touring until April 2026 with Planting Disabled Futures: A Virtual Reality Ritual, a crip intimacy installation and community performance that invites participants into a world shaped by disabled ways of knowing.
"If I told you how it happened you’d say I made it up. But it’s true. It’s how I got here."
From “The Vent” by Mariana McDonald, a #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow; published in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
www.theintima.org/the-vent-mar...
🎧 New audiobook: A Valentine from the Sea - by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Brenda Peterson. This story explores love, longing, wildness, and the deep bonds between humans and the natural world.
📖 Peterson has authored 23+ books for adults and children.
audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/t...
“The Devil’s Wife Considers” by #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow Patricia Spears Jones is a striking work. The poem reimagines myth by centering the voice of the Devil’s wife as she reflects on love, desire, loyalty and the cost of temptation and betrayal.
the-song-cave.com/products/the...
Read #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow Tom Montgomery Fate’s new review, “Poetry as the Art of Activism,” @terrainorg.bsky.social.
He says: "What readers will find is that this 'joyful resistance' springs from the poets’ radical attentiveness to the world around them..."
www.terrain.org/2026/reviews...
Lauren Camp’s new poetry collection, Is Is Enough, will be released on February 18 from @tamupress.bsky.social
Camp is a #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow.
"The collection flickers through and locates in distorted realities, loss, and gentling."
www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...
Congratulations to #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Mary Swander whose new touring play 'Coop' is based on "historical fiction, an enactment of true stories of Amish, Mennonite, and other conscientious objectors during WWI and WWII."
Check out the upcoming 2026 dates ⬇️
maryswander.com/coop/
ICYMI: Backlit Podcast episode with #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow Laura-Gray Street.
➡️ "Weaving together gender, industrialization, ecology and work, Laura-Gray’s work sparks new insights as we approach literature and life as an opportunity for discovery."
www.abenantoso.com/podcast/back...
Cutthroat Journal Logo. About Place Journal Logo
Exciting news! On March 6th, at 6:00pm, Cutthroat and the #BlackEarthInstitute @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social are holding a reading during the @awpwriter.org conference at the Black Genius Art Show. We hope that you can join us.
We’ve traveled to a field with its inner
servings of sand and wolves. The sand is owned and never
appears on a map because the owners want its hard
tender invisible. The space trembles and is built up and seems
-Lauren Camp, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
"In the past 30 years of studying wolves returned to their native habitat, scientists have discovered that these top predators help balance and restore the entire ecosystem."
'When Wolves Return' by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Brenda S. Peterson.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
ICYMI: The new book of #Poetry 'pedagogies for the planthroposcene' by #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow Orchid Tierney, was published by the above/ground press.
@orchidtierney.bsky.social is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa-New Zealand
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/new-...
"Some animals, like some people, find it is their fate to exist between the worlds and perhaps become bridges so that others may cross over," says #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Brenda S. Peterson in her latest Substack post.
bpetersonauthor.substack.com/p/the-whale-...
Erin Coughlin Hollowell
The ocean wrapped its arms around the town.
Houses empty except for the calm darkness that lived there.
-From 'Imaginary landscapes among the erratic romantics' by #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social in Shenandoah.
www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/imagi...
DJ Lee
I spread my drawings across the kitchen floor,
aquarium blueprints unfurling like small
hopes, while my father stands
in the doorway, fragile as blown glass.
From 'Improv' by #BlackEarthInstitute Resident Scholar Advisor DJ Lee.
✒️Thimble Literary Magazine
www.thimblelitmag.com/2025/07/30/i...
Lauren Camp's forthcoming book 'Is Is Enough' (2026) "begins in heritage and harmony then breaks apart into the strange world and tautly stretched emotions that accompany dementia."
➡️ Camp is a #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow.
www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...
We are targets for the Devils work—fertile women, queer men, Black and brown people, the usual suspects and yet, he’s uneasy.
_______
- Patricia Spears Jones, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow & New York State Poet (2023-2025) @pksj51.bsky.social
voxpopulisphere.com/2025/11/22/p...
Crafting a Documentary Poetics of Resistance in the Shadow of State Violence: Teresa Dzieglewicz, author of Something Small of How to See a River, for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
➡️ Dzieglewicz is a #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow.
lithub.com/crafting-a-d...
Animals are the first responders to climate change. What can they teach us? Read the latest post 'Survival Tips from Animals,' by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Brenda Peterson. #ClimateChange
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Their words nervous, their sinews redefining.
Life goes in a blink.
They were all clenched back to parents.
Without embellishment, they were saved.
From 'Small Mariners'
by #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp @commonmag.bsky.social.
#Poetry
www.thecommononline.org/small-marine...
"Even though Americans criticize rigid caste systems and privilege in other countries, America has its own rich ruling class. Greed in this century is not a deadly sin — it’s a business plan."
-Brenda Peterson, #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow
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Congratulations to #BlackEarthInstitute Emeritus Fellow Lauren Camp, who was among the featured speakers at the 2025 @lityoungstown.bsky.social fall Literary Festival. Her book of #Poetry 'An Eye in Each Square,' was published by @riverriverbooks.bsky.social riverriverbooks.org/store/An-Eye...
