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CALL FOR POEMS FOR EARTH DAY

Posted in Ecopoetry, tagged , , , on April 2, 2026| Leave a Comment »

CALL FOR POEMS FOR EARTH DAY 2026
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We do not live in a Nuclear Age or an Information Age. We do not live in a Post-Industrial Age, a Post-Cold War Age, or a Post-Modern Age. We do not live in an Age of Anxiety or even a New Age. We live in an Age of Flowering Plants and an Age of Beetles. 
– Sue Hubbell, from Broadsides from the Other Orders
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Yesterday Teresa Litschke interviewed me in preparation for the Great Trails State celebration in North Carolina this fall. One thing she asked me was, “Why do you think the activities of your local trails organization are important for your community?”
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I’ve been thinking about that question ever since. Why take a walk? Why look at a flower or listen for a bird? Why spend a minute outdoors? I don’t know if my answer in the interview was profound or true, and I don’t know if I can even begin to answer the question for you, either. Perhaps the most important thing is that we each ask the question of ourselves. Do I feel connected? To other people in my community? To the fragrance of spring and the bite of winter? To the sun rising and the rain falling? To the flowering plants and the beetles that are the most abundant inhabitants of my planet?
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Each time I lead a naturalist hike, I remind all the participants that they are the naturalists during the time we’re together. If you are paying attention to the earth, you are flexing your naturalist muscles. And of course paying attention is at the heart of creating a poem. Earth Day . . . Poetry Month . . . natural companions.
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I would love to post dozens of poems for Earth Day this year throughout the month of April.
Please send me one! 
And please include your comments or reactions to the poem! Does it enlarge your sense of connection to the earth and the universe?
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Send a single poem in the body of the email or as .DOC or .RTF to:
ecopoetry@griffinpoetry.com 
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BONUS: if you send me one poem by an author other than yourself, I invite you to send me a second poem by you. Please let me know where the poems have been published.
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And feel free to invite others to send their favorite Earth Day poems.
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Perhaps some day we will be able to say we live in the Age of Connection.
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— Bill
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