New and On View: Mudlark Flash No. 90 (2014)
The 21st-Century Nature Poem
An Essay by Christopher Cokinos
(written in response to Greg Wrenn's essay, "The 23rd-Century Nature Poem,"
which originally appeared in American Poetry Review, May/June 2014, and has
since been republished in Poetry Daily online)
Christopher Cokinos is the author of three nonfiction books:
Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
(Tarcher/Penguin, 2000), The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting
Stars (Tarcher/Penguin, 2009) and, most recently, Bodies, of the Holocene
from Truman (2013). His poetry chapbook Held as Earth is out from Finishing
Line (2014). He has new poems in Terrain.org, december, Berkeley Poetry
Review, Western Humanities Review and New Delta Review, along with
nonfiction and criticism in the Los Angeles Times, Orion and Extrapolation.
He directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona, where
is he also a 2014-2015 Udall Center Environmental Policy Fellow.
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