Meg Muthupandiyan
@megmuthupandiyan.bsky.social
Pilgrim-poet, nature essayist, and founder of Poetry in the Parks (poetryintheparks.org)
How should nature, scientific, and environmental writers might approach writing the world in an era of language policing. Let Buddha take the wheel.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
How should nature, scientific, and environmental writers might approach writing the world in an era of language policing. Let Buddha take the wheel.
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Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate
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September 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
The National Writing Project and National Park Service’s Write Out is right around the corner…
Let’s get writing outdoors!
Let’s get writing outdoors!
Exercise Three: Writing The First Morning
using a grounding ritual as a tool of encounter
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September 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The National Writing Project and National Park Service’s Write Out is right around the corner…
Let’s get writing outdoors!
Let’s get writing outdoors!
Abbey approached his first morning in the high desert as if it were a conversation to ease into with a world that was waiting for him. These many years since, he has been teaching me to do the same.
The Middle of Nowhere is Always Somewhere to Somebody
...or, how Edward Abbey taught me how to enter the temple of the world.
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September 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Abbey approached his first morning in the high desert as if it were a conversation to ease into with a world that was waiting for him. These many years since, he has been teaching me to do the same.
Tonight the moon will hang in a waxing crescent, a mere quarter of it reflecting the light of the sun. In these waning days of summer, what better time could there be than to start a cycle of moon journaling?
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August 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Tonight the moon will hang in a waxing crescent, a mere quarter of it reflecting the light of the sun. In these waning days of summer, what better time could there be than to start a cycle of moon journaling?
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As nature, environmental, and scientific writing become increasingly contested and undermined genres, I’ve decided to put my life’s work on Substack as an open source curriculum for nature writers. New lectures and exercises to drop each week.
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July 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
As nature, environmental, and scientific writing become increasingly contested and undermined genres, I’ve decided to put my life’s work on Substack as an open source curriculum for nature writers. New lectures and exercises to drop each week.
open.substack.com/pub/megmuthu...
open.substack.com/pub/megmuthu...
Is Biography the One A.I.-Proof Genre? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/m...
Is Biography the One A.I.-Proof Genre?
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June 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Is Biography the One A.I.-Proof Genre? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/m...
For years I’ve used a foraging exercise as a starter for my writing practice. I describe it here!
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Exercise One: Foraging
a gathering exercise for contemplative poets and essayists
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June 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
For years I’ve used a foraging exercise as a starter for my writing practice. I describe it here!
megmuthupandiyan.substack.com/p/exercise-o...
megmuthupandiyan.substack.com/p/exercise-o...
Environmental and nature writers, check out this community opportunity starting in a couple of weeks!
www.climatepsychologyandchange.com/events/ecolo...
www.climatepsychologyandchange.com/events/ecolo...
Ecology and the Imagination — Centre for Climate Psychology
In this short intensive course we will study myth, story, poetry, image-making and philosophy as an interconnected whole that can nourish, ground and power our imaginations to become a force for goodn...
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June 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Environmental and nature writers, check out this community opportunity starting in a couple of weeks!
www.climatepsychologyandchange.com/events/ecolo...
www.climatepsychologyandchange.com/events/ecolo...
Our concept of foraging needs a revamp . . . it’s time to bring it into the ‘burbs.
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June 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Our concept of foraging needs a revamp . . . it’s time to bring it into the ‘burbs.
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
The end of a book project is the beginning of a book’s life. ;)
With the arrival of my copies today, I rest in the knowledge that these poems will find their way home to readers in precious and wild and never-to-be-known ways.
#poetryislove
#poetrycollection
#newpoetry
#poetrygram
With the arrival of my copies today, I rest in the knowledge that these poems will find their way home to readers in precious and wild and never-to-be-known ways.
#poetryislove
#poetrycollection
#newpoetry
#poetrygram
April 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The end of a book project is the beginning of a book’s life. ;)
With the arrival of my copies today, I rest in the knowledge that these poems will find their way home to readers in precious and wild and never-to-be-known ways.
#poetryislove
#poetrycollection
#newpoetry
#poetrygram
With the arrival of my copies today, I rest in the knowledge that these poems will find their way home to readers in precious and wild and never-to-be-known ways.
#poetryislove
#poetrycollection
#newpoetry
#poetrygram
Two weeks to the book launch!
Cheers to @watersedgepress.bsky.social 's and Lakeland University for coordinating the event!
#PoetryBook #NewRelease #BookLaunch #PoetryCommunity
Cheers to @watersedgepress.bsky.social 's and Lakeland University for coordinating the event!
#PoetryBook #NewRelease #BookLaunch #PoetryCommunity
April 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Two weeks to the book launch!
Cheers to @watersedgepress.bsky.social 's and Lakeland University for coordinating the event!
#PoetryBook #NewRelease #BookLaunch #PoetryCommunity
Cheers to @watersedgepress.bsky.social 's and Lakeland University for coordinating the event!
#PoetryBook #NewRelease #BookLaunch #PoetryCommunity
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#poetry These three wonderful chapbooks are open for pre-order at watersedgepress.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#poetry These three wonderful chapbooks are open for pre-order at watersedgepress.com
Human Geographies is coming soon. . . @watersedgepress.bsky.social
has opened preorders today!
wix.to/fQBMIaR
has opened preorders today!
wix.to/fQBMIaR
March 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Human Geographies is coming soon. . . @watersedgepress.bsky.social
has opened preorders today!
wix.to/fQBMIaR
has opened preorders today!
wix.to/fQBMIaR
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Jamie Raskin is encouraging people to file Federal Privacy Act requests on their personal DOGE data. Fillable forms here: jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
DOGE Privacy Act Requests
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...
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March 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Jamie Raskin is encouraging people to file Federal Privacy Act requests on their personal DOGE data. Fillable forms here: jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
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March 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Just did it myself.
Just because.
Just because.
A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
February 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Just did it myself.
Just because.
Just because.
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From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
January 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
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The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
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January 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
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As warned.
It's one thing to take down pages talking about diversity in science.
It's another thing entirely to take down research databases that are used for observational studies.
That is exactly what it seems just happened at the CDC.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c... www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...
It's another thing entirely to take down research databases that are used for observational studies.
That is exactly what it seems just happened at the CDC.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c... www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...
CDC removes data on sexual orientation, gender identity from website
Data from an expansive federal survey on youth behavioral habits, including their sexual orientation and gender identity, have been removed from the website of the CDC.
www.statnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
As warned.
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Editor Laura made a list of litmags that have come here. Please share and encourage others to follow.
Also. We're kind. If you're a litmag that wants to be on it. Holler in the DMs!
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Also. We're kind. If you're a litmag that wants to be on it. Holler in the DMs!
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January 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Editor Laura made a list of litmags that have come here. Please share and encourage others to follow.
Also. We're kind. If you're a litmag that wants to be on it. Holler in the DMs!
go.bsky.app/RwLgZrQ
Also. We're kind. If you're a litmag that wants to be on it. Holler in the DMs!
go.bsky.app/RwLgZrQ