Category: Species of Concern
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Awards and Badges
All the Gifts Gratitude and Privilege Sometimes you receive kudos for something you’ve achieved, for which you’ve worked hard over many years, and en route gratefully accepted help from mentors, friends, family, and colleagues (fellow poets). This is the case with this Best Books Finalist Award. I didn’t get here by myself. Also, it’s important…
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What’s the Buzz?
“Have you heard?” said one egg to the other. “No, I’m decorated with tic-tac-toe, not ears.” “That online book launch they keep talking about, the one on April 26th at 2 PM, is going to be something else altogether.” “Explain?!” Salon-style Format Two talented panelists will be asking the author questions, inviting her to read,…
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Sproing!
A few recent sightings on walks in the woods from late March through the first week in April. The Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foeditus) with its weird flower (spadix = a ball of tiny flowers) tucked inside the marbled spathe is one of my favorites. All of these have made their way into my poems in…
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Launched!
Celebration! It was a terrific afternoon and early evening with many participants and helpers, good food from HoneyBeeFed, a gorgeously artistic arrangement of the appetizers table, and the inky-colored Inkling cocktail served in Wild Ink logo glasses, and wine from Cardinal Point. Art and Natural History Display I was lucky to have an artist and…
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Red Eft
Species of Concern August/September 2024 Newt or Salamander? Here’s an eft I recently saw sauntering nonchalantly along the trail. You can often spot them in the leaf litter on the forest floor, standing out brightly. I’ve been told “It’s really a newt.” But some say with confidence, “No, it’s a salamander.” Which is it? Both …
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Wood Thrush
Have you had the luck to hear the flute-like, melodic song of our own Wood Thrush, a bird of the deep woods in the Eastern US? I was already planning to write this month’s Species of Concern piece about the Wood Thrush when I came across a film, The Nightingale’s Song, part of a series…