Sit Down and Write: Eco Poems

2025
Written By The Poetry Lab
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Leonora Simonovis

is a Venezuelan American poet, editor and educator. Her debut poetry collection, Study of the Raft, won the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in DMQ Review, The Hopper, About Place Journal, River Mouth Review, Verse Daily, and others. She has received support from The Poetry Foundation, VONA, Women Who Submit, and the Vermont Studio Center. Leonora is the Reviews Editor at Ecotheo Review and the Currents Editor at terrain.org.

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An eco poem explores the relationship between humans and the natural world through the lens of environmental change.

In this episode, Leo reflects on shifting landscapes, shares Jane Hirshfield’s “Common Pigeon” (used with permission), and offers prompts and resources to help listeners write their own eco poems.

mentioned in this episode

📗 You are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, Edited and Introduced by Ada Limon

📗 Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, Edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura Gray-Street

✨ “Common Pigeon” by Jane Hishfield

✨ “What is Eco Poetry?” by Forrest Gander

📚 More than Human Worlds: 5 Important Ecopoems by Leonora Simonovis

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