Dear Human at the Edge of Time
Subtitle
Poems on Climate Change in the United States
Edited by Ernesto L. Abeytia
DEAR HUMAN AT THE EDGE OF TIME: POEMS ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES (Paloma Press, 2023) is a companion to the congressionally mandated Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5).
The anthology features a Foreword from Claire Wahmanholm, and an Afterword from Sam Illingworth; and showcases the work of over 70 poets and scientists including Ernesto L. Abeytia, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Angela Narciso Torres, Craig Santos Perez, Khaty Xiong, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Eileen Tabios, Brian Turner, January Gill O'Neil, Maw Shein Win, Molly Fisk, Rajiv Mohabir, Dave Bonta, Lesley Wheeler, Sony Ton-AIme, Union of Concerned Scientists director Erika Spanger-Siegfried, ecologist Catherine Hulshof De La Peña, Jefferson Lab senior physicist Mac Mestayer, and the current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
Bio
Ernesto L. Abeytia is a Spanish-American poet and teacher. His poems appear or in DIALOGIST, Prairie Schooner, Fugue, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, an MA in English from Saint Louis University, and an MA in Anglo/North-American Cultural and Literary Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid in Madrid, Spain.
Praise for this book
The DEAR HUMAN anthology is rich, deep, and ultimately heartening… So many voices in this book are new to me—that too is heartening. The informedness of the poems. Their integration of fact and feeling… There were steps forward along with steps backward. And now more than ever, at last, the chorus of earth-defenders and earth-embracers grows omnipresent, visible not least in the pages of this book.
Jane Hirshfield American poet and essayist
