Mother Foucault’s Bookshop presents "A Poetry Eco-Entanglement" :

Alicia Cohen, Daniela Naomi Molnar, Linda Russo, Evelyn Reilly, Tim Shaner, and Orchid Tierney.

Alicia Cohen is a poet based in Portland. She has published three books of poetry, most recently Coherer, Verge Books. She is occupied with the relationship between music and meaning and how their interaction, in the space of a poem, both obscures and articulates the sensible world. This poetics is a loving and devotional practice grounded in a sense of obligation to all we cannot finally hold or know. https://www.wordsinplace.org/alicia-cohen/

Daniela Naomi Molnar’s book CHORUS was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn’s 1st /2nd Book Prize. Her next book, Light/Remains, is a blend of poetry, essay, and visual art and will be out in 2025. Her visual work has been shown nationally, is in public and private collections internationally, and has been recognized by numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies. A cornerstone of her practice is to be resolutely non-competitive, non-expert, and committed to always changing. She can be found in Portland, Oregon and exploring global public wildlands. https://www.danielamolnar.com

Linda Russo is a poet, creative collaborator, and teacher of ecospheric care. Coeditor of Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene (Wesleyan University Press) and Geopoetics in Practice (Routledge), her books include Participant (Lost Roads) and Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way (Shearsman), and To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light (Subito), a book of essays. She lives on the traditional homelands of the Nimíipuu and Pelúuc in the inland northwestern US and teaches at Washington State University.

Evelyn Reilly is a poet, scholar, and environmentalist. Her books include Styrofoam, Apocalypso and Echolocation, published by Roof, and Having Broken, Are which is forthcoming from BlazeVOX. Her poetry has appeared in many anthologies and is also included in the Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene, a multimedia compendium of work by scientists, thinkers, poets and artists. She is a co-curator of the Familiar Trees reading series in Great Barrington, MA and a member of the Steering Committee of the climate activist group 350NYC.

Tim Shaner is the author Noch Ein at the Stein: A Poetic Essay on Beer, Conversation, and Hippycrits (Spuyten Duvil, 2022), I Hate Fiction: A Novel (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) and the poetry collection Picture X (Airlie Press, 2014). His work has appeared in Exquisite Pandemic; Juxtapositions; Plumwood Mountain: A Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics; Colorado Review; Jacket; Kiosk; and elsewhere. He teaches writing at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon.

Orchid Tierney is an Aotearoa New Zealand poet and scholar. She is the author of a year of misreading the wildcats (Operating System, 2019) and chapbooks looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading (Essay Press, 2023), my Beatrice (above/ground press, 2020), ocean plastic (BlazeVOX 2019), blue doors (Belladonna* Press), Gallipoli Diaries (GaussPDF 2017), among others. She is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College. www.orchidtierney.com.