Art of the Week: Song for the Turtles in the Gulf – Linda Hogan’s Poetic Medicine for a Wounded World
A sea turtle serves as the inspiration for Linda Hogan’s poignant poem. Credit: Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (left), Chickasaw Nation (right) By Alliance Communications Coordinator Amy Durr Have you ever had …
Art of the Week: Drosophila by Jim Lenfestey – Are We the Planet’s Fruit Flies or Worse?
“Pesky” fruit flies on a banana next to pesky poet and climate activist Jim Lefestey whose email signature is: “The care of the earth is our most ancient and most …
Art of the Week: Funny and heartbreaking Problems with Hurricanes by Victor Hernández Cruz
Problems with Hurricanes by Victor Hernández Cruz A campesino looked at the air And told me: With hurricanes it’s not the wind or the noise or the water. I’ll tell …
Art of the Week: Shel Silverstein’s playfully absurd poems urge us to tap into our creativity
Put Something In from Shel Silverstein’s A Light in the Attic. Credit: Britannica, Shel Silverstein By Kaitlyn Scanlon, Alliance Intern from Oregon State University ’26 According to famed poet Shel …
Art of the Week: Amanda Gorman’s heart-aching Hymn For The Hurting
National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, best known for her Presidential Inauguration poem The Hill We Climb, wrote Hymn for the Hurting shortly after the mass shooting in Uvalde, TX …
May Good Spirits Guide Us
By Louis Alemayehu. Across the autumn sky, the wild geese call out while leaving above the bare arms of trees the warmth is dying in the air arising like ghost from the chilled waters…