Anna K Young
Creeks. Kinship. Connections.
If we more thoroughly understood the kinship between everything around us, how would that change our relationships with the world? Is...
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Caitlyn Smith
- Nov 16, 2021
- 3 min
Lichen Inhabitants of the Palouse
Every time I wandered around a cemetery as a kid, I felt calm. Inspired, even. My dad guided me through the history, telling stories of...
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Linda Russo
- Apr 30, 2021
- 3 min
The Plant Poems Project
Environmental Philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore poses the question, “What would you be willing to spend your whole life taking care of?” At...
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Lindsey Shannon
- Apr 17, 2021
- 2 min
Caught in the Spell of Biotic Community at Rose Creek Preserve
Mesmerized, I arrive at the Rose Creek Nature Preserve. It feels like I have travelled hours or days to get here and not the fifteen...
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Rachel Clark
- Feb 25, 2021
- 2 min
Seeing the Snake River Across Time: Dennis Dehart’s Wawawai Photographs
“The real gift of these photographs is the way they limn what’s possible by marking what’s past.”
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Aidan Barger
- Dec 12, 2020
- 1 min
Haibun Postcard: from Pullman City Cemetery
Sweeping across dirt, the cold breeze tugs at brown, waterlogged leaves. It rained yesterday. Small red berries, like bits of melon,...
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Aidan Barger
- Nov 21, 2020
- 1 min
Haibun Postcard: from the railroad tracks near Reaney Park, Pullman
The sun sets on wrinkled rose hips. They bob beside the tracks approaching Grand Avenue while underneath a leafless tree floats a ghost...
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Aidan Barger
- Nov 9, 2020
- 1 min
Haibun Postcard: from Wawawai County Park, Whitman County
As I open the door of my car, the beetle rushes by. It hobbles over the pebbles baked into the asphalt, speeding over the yellow parking...
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Aidan Barger
- Nov 2, 2020
- 1 min
Haibun Postcard: from the WSU Arboretum & Conservation Center, Pullman
The fly rests near the ragged, juicy plum skin, wind coursing over its iridescent thorax. Stripes of moss fill cracks on the wooden...
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Aidan Barger
- Oct 21, 2020
- 1 min
Haibun Postcard: from the Latah Trail, in the direction of Troy
The two-striped grasshopper waits while the wind gusts, and the crabapple tree whispers through its leaves. The clouds speed across the...
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EcoArts Writer
- Jul 20, 2020
- 1 min
Behind the Scenes at EcoArts this Summer...
new eco-collaborations are taking hold as students and contributors work together to create new lenses onto the wild edge spaces as sites...
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Lindsey Shannon
- May 20, 2020
- 2 min
the busy, late-afternoon traffic humming down Grand could not drown out the sound of rushing water
by Lindsey Shannon In John Walton’s poem, “I stopped as if I knew anything,” he writes about Missouri Flat Creek and the awe he felt...
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EcoArts Writer
- Apr 7, 2020
- 2 min
Poems & the Campus Canopy
The campus canopy has many benefits & it's a good time to check in with these trees. As with public spaces everywhere, social life on...
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EcoArts Writer
- Jan 31, 2020
- 2 min
The River People Are Talking
If being near a river overwhelms you with feelings of love, you intuitively grasp how we humans belong to rivers, and how rivers connect us.
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Kathlene Roberts
- Jan 7, 2020
- 2 min
"This place still holds its ethos of healing": on Gerri Sayler's PCEI "mandalas"
This place still holds its ethos of healing.
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Ellen MacNary
- May 17, 2019
- 3 min
Annie Cunningham's plant pigment papers at Phillips Farm
She had used rose hips as one of the dyes during summer; they were sunken and blackening beneath the frost now...
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Coleman Davis
- May 17, 2019
- 2 min
On John Walton’s Poem “What’s concerning” / On the Palouse River
I dig in my coat pocket and find the slip of printed paper with Walton’s poem.
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