Poetry Flash presents Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California

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Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, co-edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan, is a powerful new anthology featuring more than 250 poems by 149 contributors, including Ellen Bass, Christopher Buckley, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Camille T. Dungy, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Rebecca Foust, Dana Gioia, Rafael Jesús González, Emily Grosholz, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gary Snyder, and David St. John, with a foreword by Dana Gioia and introduction by Jack Foley. Pattiann Rogers, recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry, says, “Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California”…is not only a beautiful and thorough anthology but an homage to California, its varieties of landscapes, and the amazing poetry it has evoked. Like no other collection in its focus, it presents for the reader experiences of life and personal perspectives on the region while also providing an invaluable resource for teachers of creative writing and literature and the ecology, habitats, and species of the state.” Reading at this event are contributors:

Marcia Falk is a poet, painter, translator, and Judaic scholar. Her brand new book is Inner East: Illuminated Poems and Blessings. Her previous books include The Book of Blessings: New Jewish Prayers for Daily Life, the Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival; The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season; and The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible.

Ben Gucciardi’s poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Orion, Terrain.org, upstreet, Forklift, Ohio, and other journals. He is a winner of the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize from Harpur Palate, a Dorothy Rosenberg Prize, and contests from The Maine Review and The Santa Ana River Review.

Tiffany Higgins is the author of The Apparition at Fort Bragg, selected by Camille T. Dungy; And Aeneas Stares into Her Helmet, selected by Evie Shockley; and Tail of the Whale, translations from Portuguese of poems by Alice Sant’Anna. Her article, “Brazil’s Munduruku Mark Out Their Territory When the Government Won’t,” appeared in Granta.

Jeanne Wagner is the winner of several national awards, most recently an Arts & Letters Award, a Sow’s Ear Chapbook Prize, and a Sow’s Ear Prize for an individual poem. Her first book, The Zen Piano Mover, won the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Prize. In the Body of Our Lives, her most recent book, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press.