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Phil Fitzpatrick and John Herold wanted people educated - and fired up to take action - about climate change.They took an unconventional approach:…
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Three of Minnesota's finest poets - Joyce Sutphen, Connie Wanek, and Thom Tammaro - offered poetic commentary on life in the time of climate change during…
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UMD student Hooriya Habib is at home with her family in Qatar, but she's getting ready to return to Duluth at the end of August.Hooriya speaks English and…
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Jenna Soleo Shanks, Assistant Professor of Theater History at UMD, grew up surrounded by her Italian American family on Long Island. Later in life when…
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There aren't a lot of people who write poetry in Ojibwe, nor does Michelle Goose aspire to be one of them.Michelle is on the Native American Studies…
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It was perhaps the last Zoom event of the Climate Emergency Poetry series.The series which has taken to Zoom for the past eight months hopes the June 20…
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Pop culture is doing its part to bring the climate change conversation to our couches.Network shows like NBC's New Amsterdam show characters grappling…
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The Climate Emergency Poetry Series' next event is May 16, and this, the eighth iteration, is the "out-of-towners" edition. Co-founder (with John Herold)…
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Phil Fitzpatrick is almost always poetic, even when he's pessimistic.He wrote in a recent column in the Duluth News Tribune:But Phil's not a guy to wallow…
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It seemed unfair to have a poetry series celebrating poets who represent home to people who aren't "from here" originally and exclude Canadians. So…