Listen "A Fine Canopy: New Environmental Poetry"
Episode Synopsis
The first full-length collection from poet and environmental activist Alison Swan, A Fine Canopy, will be released in October by Wayne State University Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in many publications, including her poetry chapbooks Before the Snow Moon and Dog Heart, the recent award-winning anthologies Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction, Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, and Here: Women Writing on the Upper Peninsula. Her work has also been featured in the journals North American Review and TriQuarterly, and The Michigan Poet broadside series and anthology. In 2006, her book Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes was named a Michigan Notable Book. She’s been awarded a Mesa Refuge Residency and the Michigan Environmental Council’s Petoskey Prize for Grassroots Environmental Leadership. She teaches in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University and lives in Ann Arbor.You can find out more about the book here: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/series-and-imprints/made-michigan-writers-series
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