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Poets from across the globe gather to tell a unique collective tale of migration of humans and our natural kin. Join us on this mysterious alchemical journey, a path which is simultaneously a destination; a wandering that is also a home. Lose yourself in moments and movements as humans, birds, animals, rivers, and stones speak. These are literal and physical events, and also messages from the imagination, mind and spirit. New myths are made, old myths recalled. Find hope in shifts and transformations; open your heart as the world is uprooted.

From Root to Seed lifts up the poetic voices of Black, Brown, and Indigenous writers who have deep historical and current connections to the land, places, and the natural world of the Northeastern region of the United States. The 25 contemporary writers featured in this collection share poetry that engages with nature and land from a wide variety of vantage points, from the grand scale - imaging Sarah Baartman dreaming of boats and oceans - to the minute - an instruction on how to live like a snail. With its mix of emerging and well-established writers, From Root to Seed inserts critical voices into the stream of nature poetry coming out of the Northeast. This brief, but poignant collection serves as reminder that Black, Brown, and Indigenous people have deep roots in this region and continue to thrive here.

The Way of Gaia is a collection of paintings and prose that speaks to humanity's relationship to the planet through the lenses of ecology, evolution, and the environment. The book calls out through form and texture for a narrative that realigns the reader's sense of self and species identity to that of being part of a vast network of life linked together by relationships of shared ancestry, beauty, and interdependence. It is a narrative that calls for us to live as a respectful part of Earth's biosphere. Here one will find offerings of prose and poetry in the form of lessons and prayers coupled with paintings rich in shape and color that invite us all to see and understand with mind, heart, and soul our true connections with the Web of Life. Themes explored in the book include the Tree of Life, Earth cycles and movement, biological diversity, animism, interspecific interactions, organismal specialization, physiological pathways, reproduction, sensory systems, biophysical patterns, the extinction crisis, planetary thresholds, and the Anthropocene. The authors hope the offerings in this book will affirm, inspire, and contribute to replacing the destructive narratives of modern society with mental and spiritual frames that encourage humanity to honor and restore life on this sacred Earth, as well as contribute to the flourishing of all life without end.

In Maine, people are either "from here," born and raised, or "from away." In LandTrust, Katherine Hagopian Berry explores what it means to learn the language of a place. Spiraling out from poems of displacement, alienation, loss and futility, LandTrust concludes with poems of connection, kinship and belonging. These are poems that strive to listen deeply to land: the land you find yourself loving, the land you find yourself on.