Hopeful dystopias are so much more than an apparent oxymoron: they are in some fundamental way the spearhead of the future—and ironically often a celebration of human spirit by shining a light through the darkness of disaster. In Through the Portal: Tales from a Hopeful Dystopia, award-winning authors of speculative […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book This month we travel back to Canada, to the beautiful temperate rainforest on British Columbia’s west coast, to talk with Jess Housty, a writer and grassroots activist of Heiltsuk (Indigenous) and mixed settler heritage. They are based […]
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Harvest Moon is an anthology of loves and lives, of stories that thrive where borders and edges meet and where fates merge and collide like bodies of water seeking oceans and tides encountering clouds and landfall, habitats and hives. This anthology of 30 images and over 30 poems, stories, and […]
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Review by Mary Woodbury In Memory of a Banyan Tree by Michael Rothenberg (Lost Horse Press, 2022) American poet Michael Rothenberg’s newest collection of poems travels backward and forward on an important journey, encompassing poems written between 1985-2022. The reason I say forward is that nowadays writers speculate more than […]
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Just out by University of Calgary Press (July 2022), this book is a collection of stories, written in experimental prose, about a woman named Sophie. Sophie grew up in Veslefjord, deep in the Norwegian North, where the ice stretches to the horizon and the long polar night is filled with […]
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Back to the Dragonfly Library Author: © Sara Barkat Ordering: Amazon Publication Date: December 1, 2021 Type: Fiction – Short Stories Social Media: Author website, Instagram, YouTube, about the author, book page It’s Already Too Late (excerpt) House on a hill. River down below. And the rains speckling the grass, […]
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About Watch Your Head: Artists & Writers Respond to the Climate Crisis In Watch Your Head, poems, stories, essays, and artwork sound the alarm on the present and future consequences of the climate emergency. Ice caps are melting, wildfires are raging, and species extinction is accelerating. Dire predictions about the […]
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Thanks to Rowan Kilduff for sending three nature poems for inclusion in the Dragonfly Library. Rowan is a mountain-runner, writer, activist, photographer, and musician. He lives in the Czech Replubic with his wife, son, and with many good friends around. He has learned the most from his experiences and from […]
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Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, twelve of Australia’s most daring Indigenous writers and writers of colour provide a glimpse of Australia as we head toward the […]
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Though not a book of just fiction, editor John Freeman compiled poetry, short fiction, and essays from some of the world’s best creative voices on the subject of climate change and inequality. Galvanized by his conversations with writers and activists around the world, Freeman engaged with some of today’s most […]
Read MoreAuthor: © Michael McClure Republished from Jack Magazine (2000-2010) Issue 1–Selections from Touching the Edge: Dharma Devotions from the Hummingbird Sangha. Permissions from the author and acquisitions editor Michael Rothenberg. Originally Published in 1999 by Shambhala Publications, Inc. Type: Poetry Back to the Dragonfly Library From Rice Roaring 22 26 […]
Read MoreAuthor: © Luvuyo Mkangelwa Republished from Jack Magazine (2000-2010) Issue 5–the South Africa poetry feature–with permission of acquisitions editor Michael Rothenberg Type: Poetry Back to the Dragonfly Library The Martyrs’ Speak (21 March 2002) I fell for you, bit the dust and bled the stone that left me with a […]
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Author: © Tom Hibbard Type: Poetry – excerpt Author Links: Big Bridge, Moon Willow Press, Jacket Magazine // (manifesto) only because the promotion of privilege uncovers mournful worlds, confusing the light— the gazelles of clean water issue no threat weighing pros and cons, unseen, paradoxical looked upon categorically as […]
Read MoreThe following are more excerpts of Tom Hibbard’s Schizpo Code Zero: The Economics of Ambiguity and Creation of Value Back to the Dragonfly Library Forborne Photo (Two) classicism turns science into fascism linear evidence less global than fantasy absolutism of the self precludes history dismissing the subjective miracles of ambiguous […]
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Click here to return to the series In November, we head to the USA, the first of the world eco-fiction travels to do so. Having spent a great amount of time in the Appalachian Mountains as a child (you can read more here), when I came across the anthology Mountains […]
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