This year our Eco-Poetry reading features selected poems from those submitted, read on Zoom on The Poets Corner Sunday April 23, 2023. John Paul Caponigro and Meg Weston are co-hosts for this event.

In Why Ecopoetry? There’s No Planet B by John Shoptaw, he states “Ecopoetry is nature poetry that has designs on us, that imagines changing the ways we think, feel about, and live and act in the world.” He goes on to state that eco-poems are both environmental and environmentalist.

For this reading, poems were selected that help us see the earth anew. Without being complacent, didactic, or moralistic, our poems can express our concerns about our impact on our planet alongside our sense of awe and reverence for nature, wilderness, and the wonders of this world we live in.