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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.

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.