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This anthology is a collection of conserved lands from across the North American continent, and on the Caribbean island of Cayman Brac. Each of 10 chapters contains poems, photos, and information about actual conserved properties from a land conservation organization. They celebrate the beauty and value of lands of all kinds including forests, islands, and shorelines. Explore lands you've not yet seen, or re-explore familiar territory through art. Either way, we hope you are inspired.

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"Sink yourself into your comfy chair to embrace the marvelous descriptions of the landscapes. Envision the sacred spaces no one really owns. From Bornestone Mountain where the dying whisper. The poets attuned eye and ear describe every detail that can be described. Take a trip to the west coast, look for clam diggers where plate tectonics uplifted ancient sea beds. Learn about the Coast Salish tribes Island Pen'e'nex'weng also known as Vendovi Island. Remember with Denise Low; the grass has memory -Raúl Sánchez, City of Redmond Poet Laureate 2019-2021, author of When There Were No Borders Part field guide, part call to action, part wanderlust manifesto, Streamlines makes you want to get out there, to let yourself be inspired by the wonder of a hidden waterfall or a shoreline made new by a flock of sandhill cranes... and to let that inspiration guide you in your relationship with the land. Each poem is a seed of perspective on how we approach and interact with our natural world, an opportunity to bloom into something beyond our hemmed-in horizons. In ""Above Big Creek,"" Alexandra Teague writes [w]e follow / the water: its surging descent, its impassable / passage and rushing. So, too, do we journey with these poets through the turbulence of history and progress to moments of profound understanding and reverence for the lands and waters that nourish us. -Joanna Lee, MD, founder, River City Poets, and author of Dissections From the rolling streams of Cox Reservation to the Caribbean Sea, the poems of Streamlines honor water in all its many forms, always connecting, always nourishing, as Julie Sumner recognizes ""the rush/of it like time itself, and though time."" In water, these poets uncover profound truth. Idaho poet Alexandra Teague asks us to contemplate the Taylor Wilderness Research Station before ""frontier men's axes/cut logs out of time,"" Big Creek before it held ""inside its water, massacres. Inside its water, passages,"" while Mary Brancaccio reminds us from coral reefs of Cayman Brac, ""you have forgotten how fragile you are."" As Samaa Abdurraqib suggests, ""Isn't that what we all want? To thrive/And to drink that which threatens to drown us?"" The poets of Streamlines find in water a space of reconciliation. Stuart Kestenbaum contemplates Sunrise and Sunset Ponds where ""Everything I see/is nameless and connected,"" Rena Priest on Vendovi Island (Pen'e'nex'weng), reminds us that ""A long time ago, the two mountains were married"" ""through their parting of ways/the islands of the Salish Sea came into being"" ""leaving gifts/for the xwel'mexw, the people"" on Bainbridge Land Trust, Claudia Castro Luna contemplates the ""moss heart-water of creation."" Dive into these diverse and sacred waters, hear how they whisper between islands of protected and thriving land, hope of a healing earth. Katherine Hagopian Berry, author of LandTrust (NatureCulture, 2022) Beaver Pond Bridgton, Maine"

"Sink yourself into your comfy chair to embrace the marvelous descriptions of the landscapes. Envision the sacred spaces no one really owns. From Bornestone Mountain where the dying whisper. The poets attuned eye and ear describe every detail that can be described. Take a trip to the west coast, look for clam diggers where plate tectonics uplifted ancient sea beds. Learn about the Coast Salish tribes Island Pen'e'nex'weng also known as Vendovi Island. Remember with Denise Low; the grass has memory -Ra�l S�nchez, City of Redmond Poet Laureate 2019-2021, author of When There Were No Borders Part field guide, part call to action, part wanderlust manifesto, Streamlines makes you want to get out there, to let yourself be inspired by the wonder of a hidden waterfall or a shoreline made new by a flock of sandhill cranes... and to let that inspiration guide you in your relationship with the land. Each poem is a seed of perspective on how we approach and interact with our natural world, an opportunity to bloom into something beyond our hemmed-in horizons. In ""Above Big Creek,"" Alexandra Teague writes [w]e follow / the water: its surging descent, its impassable / passage and rushing. So, too, do we journey with these poets through the turbulence of history and progress to moments of profound understanding and reverence for the lands and waters that nourish us. -Joanna Lee, MD, founder, River City Poets, and author of Dissections From the rolling streams of Cox Reservation to the Caribbean Sea, the poems of Streamlines honor water in all its many forms, always connecting, always nourishing, as Julie Sumner recognizes ""the rush/of it like time itself, and though time."" In water, these poets uncover profound truth. Idaho poet Alexandra Teague asks us to contemplate the Taylor Wilderness Research Station before ""frontier men's axes/cut logs out of time,"" Big Creek before it held ""inside its water, massacres. Inside its water, passages,"" while Mary Brancaccio reminds us from coral reefs of Cayman Brac, ""you have forgotten how fragile you are."" As Samaa Abdurraqib suggests, ""Isn't that what we all want? To thrive/And to drink that which threatens to drown us?"" The poets of Streamlines find in water a space of reconciliation. Stuart Kestenbaum contemplates Sunrise and Sunset Ponds where ""Everything I see/is nameless and connected,"" Rena Priest on Vendovi Island (Pen'e'nex'weng), reminds us that ""A long time ago, the two mountains were married"" ""through their parting of ways/the islands of the Salish Sea came into being"" ""leaving gifts/for the xwel'mexw, the people"" on Bainbridge Land Trust, Claudia Castro Luna contemplates the ""moss heart-water of creation."" Dive into these diverse and sacred waters, hear how they whisper between islands of protected and thriving land, hope of a healing earth. Katherine Hagopian Berry, author of LandTrust (NatureCulture, 2022) Beaver Pond Bridgton, Maine"

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Lis McLoughlin, PhD is founder and director of NatureCulture LLC, and the Writing the Land project. She publishes the Writing the Land anthologies and other books, and produces events such as the online Authors and Artists Festival. nature-culture.net writingtheland.org Susan Justiniano

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