Ellen Girardeau Kempler
@placepoet.bsky.social
Poet / Writer / Author: Fire in My Head / Flame in My Heart: Poems for the Pyrocene (Kelsay Books, 2025) ~ Thirty Views of a Changing World (Finishing Line Press, 2017) ~ OR grown, CA rooted ~ This is not Ostrich Time. Resistance is engagement. 💚
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Fire in My Head / Flame in My Heart: Poems for the Pyrocene (Kelsay Books, 2025) is available now @lagunabeachbooks and fine independent bookstores everywhere. If you must order online, recommend @bookshop.org or @powells.bsky.social Don’t support oligarchs!
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@totallyturtles.bsky.social do you like tortoises, too? I have a poem in my latest book, “Fire in My Head / Flame in My Heart” about becoming a Galapagos tortoise in my next life. I love turtles, too.
May 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
@totallyturtles.bsky.social do you like tortoises, too? I have a poem in my latest book, “Fire in My Head / Flame in My Heart” about becoming a Galapagos tortoise in my next life. I love turtles, too.
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“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars.”
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
March 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars.”
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
But will her free speech rights be restored?
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
A federal judge in Vermont has ordered that Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student and Turkish national, be immediately released from federal custody.
A federal judge in Vermont has ordered that Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student and Turkish national, be immediately released from federal custody.
Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk ordered freed from immigration detention
Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was ordered released by a federal judge in Vermont in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it ac...
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May 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
But will her free speech rights be restored?
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Cover Reveal! + Pre-Orders for my forthcoming poetry collection 'Take Care' from Moon Tide Press
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markdanowsky.substack.com/p/cover-reveal
Cover Reveal!
Take Care
markdanowsky.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Cover Reveal! + Pre-Orders for my forthcoming poetry collection 'Take Care' from Moon Tide Press
markdanowsky.substack.com/p/cover-reveal
markdanowsky.substack.com/p/cover-reveal
Thorough column about how my life led me to write a collection of poems focusing on climate grief and the Pyrocene, western North America’s Age of Fire. #climateart #ecopoetry #climateactivism #lagunabeachpoet #lagunabeachindy
www.lagunabeachindy.com/opinion/gues...
www.lagunabeachindy.com/opinion/gues...
Guest Opinion: Random Guy Noticing Stuff
Comparing the Northern lights in Norway with the Northern lights in Iceland is just one aspect of the patchwork of experiences that local poet Ellen Girardeau Kempler has drawn upon
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May 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Thorough column about how my life led me to write a collection of poems focusing on climate grief and the Pyrocene, western North America’s Age of Fire. #climateart #ecopoetry #climateactivism #lagunabeachpoet #lagunabeachindy
www.lagunabeachindy.com/opinion/gues...
www.lagunabeachindy.com/opinion/gues...
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We’re proud to introduce "The Leap," a 10-part audio series on scientists who took bold risks in pursuit of discovery. Listen every week on the SciFri podcast starting Monday, May 12.
Produced by @hypothesisfund.bsky.social, brought to you by Science Friday.
Produced by @hypothesisfund.bsky.social, brought to you by Science Friday.
The Leap
“The Leap” is a new podcast series profiling scientists willing to take big risks—personal and professional—to push the boundaries of discovery.
www.sciencefriday.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We’re proud to introduce "The Leap," a 10-part audio series on scientists who took bold risks in pursuit of discovery. Listen every week on the SciFri podcast starting Monday, May 12.
Produced by @hypothesisfund.bsky.social, brought to you by Science Friday.
Produced by @hypothesisfund.bsky.social, brought to you by Science Friday.
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Stay human. Resistance is the only way forward. Make art. Read. Support cultural institutions. Boycott oligarchs. Live sustainably, in community. Use your outside voices. Listen to the birds. Don’t rush. Stay curious and open.
May 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Stay human. Resistance is the only way forward. Make art. Read. Support cultural institutions. Boycott oligarchs. Live sustainably, in community. Use your outside voices. Listen to the birds. Don’t rush. Stay curious and open.
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Word on the street: Leo is a climate guy!
May 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Word on the street: Leo is a climate guy!
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New publisher listing for: Palette Poetry Nature Poetry Prize (Poetry; pays; fee-based). #WritingCommunity
New Publisher Listing: Palette Poetry Nature Poetry Prize
New publisher listing for: Palette Poetry Nature Poetry Prize (Poetry; pays; fee-based). #WritingCommunity
duotrope.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New publisher listing for: Palette Poetry Nature Poetry Prize (Poetry; pays; fee-based). #WritingCommunity
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Where Robert Prevost, the new US-born Pope, stands on climate change:
"Prevost is outspoken about the need for urgent action on climate change"
collegeofcardinalsreport.com/evidence/car...
"Prevost is outspoken about the need for urgent action on climate change"
collegeofcardinalsreport.com/evidence/car...
May 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Where Robert Prevost, the new US-born Pope, stands on climate change:
"Prevost is outspoken about the need for urgent action on climate change"
collegeofcardinalsreport.com/evidence/car...
"Prevost is outspoken about the need for urgent action on climate change"
collegeofcardinalsreport.com/evidence/car...
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I am so sorry to hear of Martha Silano’s passing. Celebrate poets while they are with us. Remember them after. Read them, always. ❤️
“Because why not? Why not take the smashed pinecone
of my life, render it in purple? Why not dream of baking
thirteen pies, six bumbleberry, seven sour cherry? I wouldn’t
press myself into a grief box, but I will confess I’m happiest
under a sleeping sky, love the darkness”
Martha Silano
#poetry
of my life, render it in purple? Why not dream of baking
thirteen pies, six bumbleberry, seven sour cherry? I wouldn’t
press myself into a grief box, but I will confess I’m happiest
under a sleeping sky, love the darkness”
Martha Silano
#poetry
May 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I am so sorry to hear of Martha Silano’s passing. Celebrate poets while they are with us. Remember them after. Read them, always. ❤️
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Are you an emerging poet? The Finding Beauty Poetry Prize is open for entries until 19 May!
This very special prize has been established in memory of Roger Green, an environmental advocate, writer and editor, lover of poetry, and thinker.
marion.ink/finding-beau...
This very special prize has been established in memory of Roger Green, an environmental advocate, writer and editor, lover of poetry, and thinker.
marion.ink/finding-beau...
April 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Are you an emerging poet? The Finding Beauty Poetry Prize is open for entries until 19 May!
This very special prize has been established in memory of Roger Green, an environmental advocate, writer and editor, lover of poetry, and thinker.
marion.ink/finding-beau...
This very special prize has been established in memory of Roger Green, an environmental advocate, writer and editor, lover of poetry, and thinker.
marion.ink/finding-beau...
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Major Jackson asks: “How can writers, artists, those working in the humanities conceive of their work as having impact?”
In a time when the arts, Black history, and environmentalism are all facing systemic erasure, we find ourselves returning to this urgent conversation that interweaves all three.
In a time when the arts, Black history, and environmentalism are all facing systemic erasure, we find ourselves returning to this urgent conversation that interweaves all three.
To Observe that Kind of Devotion
A conversation
orionmagazine.org
May 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Major Jackson asks: “How can writers, artists, those working in the humanities conceive of their work as having impact?”
In a time when the arts, Black history, and environmentalism are all facing systemic erasure, we find ourselves returning to this urgent conversation that interweaves all three.
In a time when the arts, Black history, and environmentalism are all facing systemic erasure, we find ourselves returning to this urgent conversation that interweaves all three.
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📝 What if writing a letter could help change the future?
DearTomorrow, co-founded by our co-director Jill Kubit, has inspired more than 5,000 heartfelt letters to loved ones over the past decade.
This week, it was featured in The @washingtonpost.com!
Read more 👉 dub.sh/CTR4UNE
DearTomorrow, co-founded by our co-director Jill Kubit, has inspired more than 5,000 heartfelt letters to loved ones over the past decade.
This week, it was featured in The @washingtonpost.com!
Read more 👉 dub.sh/CTR4UNE
May 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
📝 What if writing a letter could help change the future?
DearTomorrow, co-founded by our co-director Jill Kubit, has inspired more than 5,000 heartfelt letters to loved ones over the past decade.
This week, it was featured in The @washingtonpost.com!
Read more 👉 dub.sh/CTR4UNE
DearTomorrow, co-founded by our co-director Jill Kubit, has inspired more than 5,000 heartfelt letters to loved ones over the past decade.
This week, it was featured in The @washingtonpost.com!
Read more 👉 dub.sh/CTR4UNE
Happy birthday to a hero who has made Earth’s many wonders more visible. We are more inclined to save what we see, understand and love. Science is essential.
Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more
This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh ...
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Happy birthday to a hero who has made Earth’s many wonders more visible. We are more inclined to save what we see, understand and love. Science is essential.
Fire in My Head / Flame in My Heart: Poems for the Pyrocene (Kelsay Books, 2025) is available now @lagunabeachbooks and fine independent bookstores everywhere. If you must order online, recommend @bookshop.org or @powells.bsky.social Don’t support oligarchs!
May 8, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Fire in My Head / Flame in My Heart: Poems for the Pyrocene (Kelsay Books, 2025) is available now @lagunabeachbooks and fine independent bookstores everywhere. If you must order online, recommend @bookshop.org or @powells.bsky.social Don’t support oligarchs!
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Getting creative! 😉 Hundreds of billboards are rising in 40 U.S. cities, bashing staff and service cuts at national parks under DOGE.
May 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Getting creative! 😉 Hundreds of billboards are rising in 40 U.S. cities, bashing staff and service cuts at national parks under DOGE.
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Congratulations to Marie Howe on winning a Pulitzer for New and Selected Poems!
I was there in the audience when she first read one of these poems, The Singularity, at Maria Popova’s Universe in Verse and then I made music for the recording of it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=on7U...
I was there in the audience when she first read one of these poems, The Singularity, at Maria Popova’s Universe in Verse and then I made music for the recording of it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=on7U...
“Singularity (after Stephen Hawking)” by Marie Howe
YouTube video by SALT Project
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May 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Congratulations to Marie Howe on winning a Pulitzer for New and Selected Poems!
I was there in the audience when she first read one of these poems, The Singularity, at Maria Popova’s Universe in Verse and then I made music for the recording of it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=on7U...
I was there in the audience when she first read one of these poems, The Singularity, at Maria Popova’s Universe in Verse and then I made music for the recording of it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=on7U...
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Lyme Regis, Jurrasic Coast and fossil town, on the south coast of England. #LymeRegis #Dorset #England #JurrasicCoast #fossils
November 30, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Lyme Regis, Jurrasic Coast and fossil town, on the south coast of England. #LymeRegis #Dorset #England #JurrasicCoast #fossils
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#Haiku's alive!
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The 2025 international search for best haiku begins June 8th on World #Ocean Day at HaikuCrush.com!
#micropoetry #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry #haikusaturday #writingcommunity #saturdayhaiku #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #oceanday
Pls mark your calendar and repost. Thanks!
The 2025 international search for best haiku begins June 8th on World #Ocean Day at HaikuCrush.com!
#micropoetry #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry #haikusaturday #writingcommunity #saturdayhaiku #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #oceanday
Haiku Crush – the annual search for the best haiku
HaikuCrush.com
May 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#Haiku's alive!
Pls mark your calendar and repost. Thanks!
The 2025 international search for best haiku begins June 8th on World #Ocean Day at HaikuCrush.com!
#micropoetry #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry #haikusaturday #writingcommunity #saturdayhaiku #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #oceanday
Pls mark your calendar and repost. Thanks!
The 2025 international search for best haiku begins June 8th on World #Ocean Day at HaikuCrush.com!
#micropoetry #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry #haikusaturday #writingcommunity #saturdayhaiku #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #oceanday
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This week, @hamiltoncain.bsky.social examines how poets as different as Gary Snyder and Sylvia Plath were using new, similar literary devices, departing from vaunted standards for prosody.
www.altaonline.com/california-b...
www.altaonline.com/california-b...
Breaking with the Poetry World’s Orthodoxy
In the early 1960s, poets as different as CBC author Gary Snyder and Sylvia Plath were using new, similar literary devices, departing from vaunted standards for prosody.
www.altaonline.com
May 9, 2024 at 6:22 PM
This week, @hamiltoncain.bsky.social examines how poets as different as Gary Snyder and Sylvia Plath were using new, similar literary devices, departing from vaunted standards for prosody.
www.altaonline.com/california-b...
www.altaonline.com/california-b...
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Amanda Gorman, a Los Angeles native and one of the most acclaimed young poets in the country, released a new body of work to support the California Fire Foundation during the battle against several wildfires.
January 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Amanda Gorman, a Los Angeles native and one of the most acclaimed young poets in the country, released a new body of work to support the California Fire Foundation during the battle against several wildfires.