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🌿📚 The Center for Humans & Nature is home to a press and a farm that explore in-depth and diverse perspectives about what it means to be human in an interconnected world. https://humansandnature.org
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To the poets, writers, & artists who submitted work to Humans & Nature Press Digital’s 2025 open call: Thank you for considering what seeds we are all planting for the future. We are grateful for the thoughtfulness, time, & care each submission represents. We’ll update here as we finalize reviews. 🌱
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Interesting posting from @humansandnature.bsky.social Before Dreams Are the Last Place We Find You By Lydia Cheshewalla "...an artist who works primarily with elements from nature, seeking to form relationships with the land and the more-than-human" humansandnature.org/before-dream...
Before Dreams Are the Last Place We Find You
In August 2025, artist Lydia Cheshewalla was in residency at the Center for Humans & Nature, making artwork to be exhibited at Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods in Riverwoods, Illinois. […]
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November 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“It all started with walks, you know?” — Lydia Cheshewalla

View Lydia’s exhibition “Before Dreams Are the Last Place We Find You” at Brushwood Center in Riverwoods IL thru Nov 2.

At the link, read more about Lydia and enjoy a recent conversation we shared: humansandnature.org/before-dream... 🌱
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
🌿 Happy to be included in the Living Earth Community, a project of @religion-ecology.bsky.social. As shared on their site: “The world speaks—to itself and to us—in a multitude of voices, each representing a unique way of being and knowing.” Learn more: livingearthcommunity.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“I’m hoping that people take away the invitation. The invitation into nature, into this great family.” —Lydia Cheshewalla

Lydia’s beautiful art, including ephemeral works created while on residency at the Center for Humans & Nature, is now on view at Brushwood: brushwoodcenter.org/plan-a-visit...
September 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Lydia Cheshewalla was recently in residency at the Center for Humans & Nature, making work that will be exhibited at Brushwood Center in Riverwoods IL. Join us Sept 7 for an Opening Reception & Artist Talk for Cheshewalla’s ephemeral, site-specific installation: brushwoodcenter.org/event/openin...
September 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Happy to partner with Brushwood Center & artist Lydia Cheshewalla, whose work will be published by Humans & Nature Press, on “Before Dreams Are The Last Place We Find You,” an ephemeral, site-specific installation by Cheshewalla, opening Sept 7 @ Brushwood Center: brushwoodcenter.org/event/openin...
Opening Reception: Before Dreams Are The Last Place We Find You – Brushwood Center
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August 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
To the poets, writers, & artists who submitted work to Humans & Nature Press Digital’s 2025 open call: Thank you for considering what seeds we are all planting for the future. We are grateful for the thoughtfulness, time, & care each submission represents. We’ll update here as we finalize reviews. 🌱
August 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
✍️ Read "Fox River Wanderer: Summer" by Joanna K. Dane here: humansandnature.org/fox-river-wa...
August 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Through 11:59pm CDT tonight, Tuesday, July 15th, we’re welcoming submissions of essays, poetry, and artwork on the theme of seeds for Humans & Nature Press Digital’s 2025 open call. Honoraria are given for published work. Submissions welcome from around the world: humansandnature.org/submission-g...
July 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
At the link below, enjoy Robin Wall Kimmerer's essay from our five-volume book series Elementals, shared here as part of a partnership between the Center for Humans & Nature and @emergencemagazine.bsky.social. Robin's essay appears in Earth, vol. 1 of Elementals: humansandnature.org/elementals
July 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Welcoming submissions of essays, poetry, and artwork on the theme of seeds for Humans & Nature Press Digital’s 2025 open call. Submissions are open through July 15th at 11:59pm CDT. Honoraria are given for published work. Submissions welcome from around the world. humansandnature.org/submission-g...
July 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
🌿 Submissions are now open 🌿 For our open call for submissions to Humans & Nature Press Digital, we’re welcoming writings & artwork on the theme of seeds. Submit your essays, poetry, & artwork through July 15th at 11:59 pm CDT: humansandnature.org/submission-g... #opencall #seeds #callforsubmissions
June 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🌱 Beginning tomorrow, June 24th at 9am CDT, our Digital Press is welcoming essays, poetry, and artwork on the theme of seeds.

In this time of accelerated climate and social change, what are the seeds we are planting for the future?

✍️🎨 Open call guidelines: humansandnature.org/submission-guidelines
✨ Opening Tuesday ✨ For our 2025 open call for submissions to Humans & Nature Press Digital, we’re welcoming essays, poetry, & artwork on the theme of seeds. Open June 24th 9am CDT to July 15th 11:59pm CDT. Contributors receive a $500 honorarium upon publication. humansandnature.org/submission-g...
June 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
✨ Opening Tuesday ✨ For our 2025 open call for submissions to Humans & Nature Press Digital, we’re welcoming essays, poetry, & artwork on the theme of seeds. Open June 24th 9am CDT to July 15th 11:59pm CDT. Contributors receive a $500 honorarium upon publication. humansandnature.org/submission-g...
June 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
For our 2025 open call for submissions to Humans & Nature Press Digital, we’ll be welcoming essays, poetry, & artwork on the theme of seeds. 🌱

Submissions will be open June 24 thru July 15. Contributors receive an honorarium of $500 upon publication.

Guidelines: humansandnature.org/submission-g...
June 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
✍️ Join us with Writing the Wild for an evening of reading, writing, & conversation.

Thurs 5/29. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📚 Read about Elementals: humansandnature.org/elementals @gavinvh.bsky.social @nicktriolo.bsky.social @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social @ebradfield.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🌿 Join us with Writing the Wild for an evening of reading, writing, & conversation next Thurs, 5/29.

Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Read about Elementals: humansandnature.org/elementals

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May 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
For our 2025 open call for submissions to Humans & Nature Press Digital, we’ll be welcoming essays, poetry, & artwork on the theme of seeds. 🌱

Submissions will be open June 24 thru July 15. Contributors receive an honorarium of $500 upon publication.

Guidelines: humansandnature.org/submission-g...
May 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Please join us Wednesday for readings and a conversation on this vitally important subject
📚 Elementals book club returns on 5/21 with Vol. 5, An Elemental Life. If the elements are kin to one other, then what does it mean to live in kinship with the elements?

Book club is hosted online by @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social. Register here: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0... @gavinvh.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📚 Elementals book club returns on 5/21 with Vol. 5, An Elemental Life. If the elements are kin to one other, then what does it mean to live in kinship with the elements?

Book club is hosted online by @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social. Register here: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0... @gavinvh.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🎧 Weekend listening: An Elementals special series from The Becoming Nature #podcast with host Carina Lyall.

Out now— Episode 1: Fire 🔥 feat. Rina Garcia Chua & @ekostories.bsky.social and Episode 2: Water 🌊 feat. Hannah Close & Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt.

Listen: www.carinalyall.com/en/en-becomi... 🎙️
April 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
For our 2025 open call for submissions to Humans & Nature Press Digital, we’ll be welcoming essays, poetry, & artwork on the theme of seeds. 🌱

Submissions will be open June 24 thru July 15. Contributors receive an honorarium of $500 upon publication.

Guidelines: humansandnature.org/submission-g...
April 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📙 Join us online tomorrow, April 16th, for Elementals book club with @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social.

In Elementals, more than 90 contributors invite readers to consider the ways the elementals flow through our relations with a more-than-human world.

Register at the link below!

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Elementals book club returns on April 16! 🔥

📙 Vol. 4, Fire asks what the many manifestations of fire might be imparting to us now, & how fire may be beckoning us to keep & tend to our elemental relations with care.

ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0...

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April 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If it is possible to revive an extinct species, should we? Explore our Questions series: “How far should we go to bring back lost species?”

In promoting & protecting biodiversity, where would you draw the line?

Explore nineteen responses: humansandnature.org/how-far-shou... #deextinction #direwolf
How far should we go to bring back lost species?
The sixth great extinction is upon us but advances in science might offer the chance to revive an extinct species—how far should we go?
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April 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM