Dorianne Laux

May 6, 2024 | transcend.org | Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux – TRANSCEND Media Service The moon is backing away from usan inch and a half each year. That meansif you’re like me and were bornaround fifty years ago the moonwas a full six feet closer to the earth. What’s a person supposed to do? I feel the gray cloud of consternationtravel across my face.

Apr 22, 2024 | terrain.org | Ana Maria Spagna |Dorianne Laux

Earth DayEarth Day fell on a sunny Saturday, the first truly warm day of spring in the North Country. Daffodils swayed, kids danced barefoot in the grass, and intrepid paddlers launched canoes on small rivers, while 40 of us sat in a windowless room for a panel presentation. The crowd leaned middle-aged and supportive. To be here, you’d have to have some interest in the environment or progressive politics broadly defined and enough fortitude to forego the fabulous weather.

Apr 19, 2024 | themarginalian.org | Maria Popova |Dorianne Laux

“Hearing the rising tide,” Rachel Carson wrote in her poetic meditation on the ocean and the meaning of life, “there are echoes of past and future: of the flow of time, obliterating yet containing all that has gone before… of the stream of life, flowing as inexorably as any ocean current, from past to unknown future.” There is indeed in the physics of the tides — that gravitational dialogue between our planet and its only satellite — something of the existential, something reminding us how...

Jan 3, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Jules Laforgue |Dorianne Laux |Anne Carson |Michael Ondaatje

Safaa Fathy, trans. from the Arabic by Rawad Z. Wehbe. Litmus, $22 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-933959-73-3Presented in English alongside the original Arabic, this expansive selection of poems by Fathy (Al Haschische) draws from four collections published between 1989 and 2010.