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POETS FOR LIVING WATERS READING @ CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

Join poets Nicole Cooley and Tonya Foster, poets and editors of the Poets for Living Waters initiative Amy King and Heidi Lynn Staples, and guest readers Jan Heller Levi,Marcella Durand, Julian Brolaski, Ana Bozicevic, Joanna Hoffman, and Brenda Iijimafor an evening of poetry and eco-poetics in the wake of large-scale catastrophes in the Gulf and the surrounding regions. The online poetry forum and activist group Poets…

What BP Isn’t Doing, But Could

The Secret, 700-Million-Gallon Oil Fix That Worked — and Might Save the Gulf May 13, 2010 at 6:46AM by Mark Warren There’s a potential solution to the Gulf oil spill that neither BP, nor the federal government, nor anyone — save a couple intuitive engineers — seems willing to try. As The Politics Blog reported on…

Not Your Usual Media “Coverage”

Poets for Living Waters – New Statements / Poems I don’t have the answers. I barely have the questions. But I’m not egotistical enough to imagine I can come up with a solution or complete understanding on my own. I also don’t think sitting in front of the TV, feeling angry and impotent, is the…

Not My Pelican!

More Gruesome Shots Here What’s BP Oil doing about the effects of filling the Gulf and Atlantic Oceans with their oil? What two things can you do? 1.) British Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, “Louisana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.” His office number is (713)323-4093 his email is randy.prescott@bp.com .…

Got Gulf Oil?

Like to eat Louisiana seafood? Swim with the Florida fishies? Enjoy a little oil in your cereal? No? Please answer the call for work at Poets for Living Waters today! Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the Gulf Oil Disaster of April 20, 2010, one of the most profound man-made ecological catastrophes in history. Former…

Another One Bites the Dust

That is, another fellow city dweller, poet and Tarpaulin Sky publisher, Christian Peet, jumped the ship of Brooklyn long before I did for gorgeous Vermont and has recently taken up the rickshaw as a means of fighting big oil and making a nickel here and there for supplies. A note from his site, “My best…

Awesome. Period.

In May 2007, Greensburg, Kansas was leveled by one of the largest tornados in U.S. history. Very few structures remained in the aftermath of the deadly EF5 tornado, and the town lost everything. Inspired by the desire of the townspeople to rebuild ‘green,’ Planet Green, along with executive producer Leonardo DiCaprio, is chronicling the rebuilding…

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