Poetry


Articles and Prose

  • 2023 Print Edition

    Ecological Memory The loss of memory can be devastating. Last year, SAGE published our first print magazine since 2020. It was a massive undertaking, clouded…

  • In the Green

    I’m not a very good nature tour guide. For one thing, I don’t know much about nature. For another, I walk very quickly; I have…

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  • Re-Memories of Warming

    Memories are translations. We gather much and miss more. I originally compiled this archive in spring of 2022 for a final project in a course…

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  • A Visit to “The New York Earth Room”

    Today’s itinerary: visit Earth Room, where a layer of soil, two feet thick, has occupied a gallery in SoHo since 1977.

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  • Sand Mining – A Photo Essay in Koilwar, India

    This is the first ever photo-essay shot on sand mining in Koilwar, Bhojpur district Bihar. The sand mining nexus in Bihar is intricate and involves…

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  • 2022 Print Edition

    CULTIVATION Cultivation: the act of caring for living things of all kinds.Cultivation: tilling, tending to, and turning pieces of the world over and over in…

  • The Apple Orchard

    When we moved back to Michigan, we bought an old farmhouse on five acres. I was still married then, with three young daughters and soon…

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  • The Quiet Season

    The days are short and cold, and it snowed last Sunday. The tree canopies, now brown, have thinned. The birds have begun migrating southwards —…

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  • The Felled and the Fallen

    Ring in two by twos,Twinning from the same root. Count the yearsOh! The years —You can only see themWhen they’re sliced in two.Cut down, dismembered,See…

  • The Cow in the Room

    People often avoid the elephant in the room, but it’s time we talk about the cow in the room. She is a ruminant, after all,…

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  • Eyes

    Blue eyes, sometimes grey and stormy Others clear as cloudless day. One moment safe Enveloped in translucent depths Next, the ice wall melts Glaciers crash…

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  • Beyond This Room

    Sure Thing It is that with which the wind blows And the snowflakes carry from the skies The mountains echo in their deep crevasses The…

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