12 Recommended Poetry Collections for Summer 2022
Summer is not over and there is still time to add some stellar new poetry collections to your reading list. Orion poetry editor Camille Dungy and friends are back with new Continue reading
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Writing a Grove: A Conversation with Poet Laureate Ada Limón
This summer Orion poetry editor Camille Dungy sat down under a leafy aspen with Ada Limón, the newly appointed Poet Laureate of the United States (!!), to talk about community, how Continue reading
The Counsel of Despair
As I navigate among the various faces I have in this world—the Happy Everyday Me, the Policy Wonk Me, the New Radical Me—I sometimes fall into the Despairing Me. I try Continue reading
Why Queer Nature?
I believe we all carry places inside us: biomes of identity and imagination central and individual to each of us. Mine happens to be the hilly fields of a Minnesota dairy Continue reading
The Age of the Possible
There, at the bottom of being, where the water that makes aaathis planet a world aaaaaais the color of spacetime the octopus— with her body-shaped mind and her Continue reading