These films were originally screened as part of the panel titled “Ecopoetics of Film” at the 2013 Conference on Eco-poetics at U.C. Berkeley. Other participants were Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Forrest Gander.
Poetry: Renee Ashley
[because I am the shore I want to be the sea]
Poetry: Molly Bendall
Spectacle His rumble, the way he tears at the carrion, then leaves a hive for listening. Tusks bang and glimmer in the sunlight. Can’t stoop to interpretation. I press my mascaraed face to the fence and see my relation— he’s mangey,…
David Koehn: On Heaney’s “The Turnip-Snedder”
The full text of “The Turnip-Snedder” can be found in the link at the end of this essay. In my notes on Seamus Heaney’s “The Turnip-Snedder” I need be careful else I’ll turn the discussion into some paltry, gushing commendation.…
Poets, Presses & Periodicals: Noctuary Press
A regular feature of OmniVerse, Poets, Presses & Periodicals is a conversation with the publisher of a small press or periodical, a poet they have chosen to highlight, and one of our OmniVerse staff writers. In this installment a poem…
Two Films by Forrest Gander: “Paleoacoustics” and “The Hugeness of that which is Missing”
These films were originally screened as part of the panel titled “Ecopoetics of Film” at the 2013 Conference on Eco-poetics at U.C. Berkeley. Other participants were Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Peter Burghardt, and Rusty Morrison.