Rewilding: Poems for the Environment

An essential volume of contemporary poetry that encourages us to reevaluate and restore our relationship with the nonhuman world.

Limited edition, 200 print run. OUT OF PRINT.

All profits from Rewilding will go to Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, a strong voice for clean water and wilderness since 1976.

Rewilding features the work of 116 established and emerging poets. Contributors include 12 poet laureates, such as Joy Harjo, current poet laureate of the United States, Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota’s poet laureate, and the work of renowned writers like Ted Kooser, Ada Limón, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Sharon Olds, Louise Glück, Camille T. Dungy, Sean Hill, Craig Santos Perez, Elizabeth Bradfield, Kimberly Blaeser, Fleda Brown, Connie Wanek, Karen Solie, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Juan J. Morales, Thomas R. Smith, Heidi Lynn Staples, Karen Skolfield, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Martha Silano, Grace Bauer, James Crews, Debra Marquart, and many more.

“As an avid canoeist whose Boundary Waters campsite was once overrun by mice, I especially loved former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s ‘A Mouse Nest.’ No matter what your memorable moments with nature and wilderness, no matter what your race or gender, you’re going to love this extraordinary collection of poems.”

— Stephen Wilbers, author of Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time

Now/Here

Winner of the 2017 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award in poetry and runner-up of the 2017 Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers, selected by Sean Thomas Dougherty.

An original new voice, Crystal Spring Gibbins' poetry collection surprises with innovation while celebrating the natural landscape.

Now/Here blends history, naturalist observations, and experiences about living on both sides of the 49th parallel—the international border that separates Canada and the United States. Other poems in the collection focus on islandness, displacement, rural communities, and humans’ relationship with the environment. Like the lake waters of the northern wilderness, the power of these poems lies beneath the surface. 

Sea/Words

This poetry chapbook is inspired by Eliza Spencer Brock’s (1810-1899) journals that she kept aboard the whale ship Lexington, during a voyage from May 21, 1853, to June 25, 1856. The journey took her to the Azores, Cape Verde Islands, New Zealand, Hawaii, and throughout the South Pacific.