Dragonfly Library

Aquarius Rising Trilogy, Brian Burt

Author: © Brian Burt Type: Series (Aquarius Rising) Publisher: Brian Burt Publication Date: October 18, 2022 Ordering: Amazon Author Links: Website, Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library Aquarius Rising Trilogy (Prologue) Ocypode’s lungs burned. He pressed against the leprous wall festooned with corals and barnacles, on the lower level of […]

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Dragonfly Library

Note that this section of the site will not be taking new submissions in 2023. I will instead be promoting Rewilding Our Stories website and Discord, and encouraging new writing exercises there for people to share. This library stay open for reading, however! The Dragonfly Library contains many excerpts of […]

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How to Bury Your Dog, Eva Silverfine

Title: How to Bury Your Dog Author: © Eva Silverfine Type: Fiction Novel Publisher/Ordering: Black Rose Writing, Amazon, Barnes & Noble Publication Date: December 2, 2021 Author Links: Website, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Bookbub Reviews and Interviews: Kirkus Reviews, Midwest Book Review, Mixcloud, Karen E. Osborne Back to the Dragonfly […]

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Poems by Rowan Kilduff

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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The Winds of Change: Children’s Environmental Climate Fiction

Author: © Claire Datnow Type: Essay Back to the Dragonfly Library The Winds of Change: Children’s Environmental Climate Fiction The gale force winds of climate change are calling. They’re calling to scientists, writers, and artists to weave stories that will inspire the children of tomorrow to dream up a brighter […]

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Bird Song: A Novella, Clara Hume

Author: © Clara Hume Publisher: Dragonfly Publishing Publication Date: November 4, 2020 Type: Novella Ordering: Dragonfly Publishing Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Discord Back to the Dragonfly Library Excerpt from Chapter 10 I followed Dion north on the white beach, and then he skipped closer to the forest. He didn’t talk, […]

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Mottainai: A Journey in Search of the Zero Waste Life, Virginia Aronson

Author: © Virginia Aronson Type: Fiction Novel Publisher/Ordering: Dixi Books Publication Date: October 2019 Author Links: Website, Instagram Book Description Mottainai means waste. Popular with the Japanese for generations, mottainai (pronounced moe-tie-nye) is the Buddhist term for essence. One can say mottainai and mean “waste nothing.” Or, if something appears […]

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The Best Part of Us, Sally Cole-Misch

Author: © Sally Cole-Misch Type: Fiction Novel Publisher/Ordering: She Writes Press Publication Date: September 8, 2020 Author Links: Website, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Throughout her career, author Sally Cole-Misch has advocated for progressive environmental conservation and policy, urging people to recognize the value of nature in their lives in order to […]

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Michael McClure, Selections from Touching the Edge

Author: © 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 […]

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Poems by Luvuyo Mkangelwa

Author: © 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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Invisible Wings, Coronavirus 2020 Poems

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 […]

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Code Zero, Part 2

The 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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Aerovoyan, P.L. Tavormina

On planet Turaset, droughts ravage farmlands, cyclones rip through coastal cities, and with every barrel of oil the combustion industry pumps from the ground, the climate worsens. Alphonse has just refused a council seat because taking it means serving that rapacious industry. He leaves the city to seek solace in […]

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The Hollow Middle, John Popielaski

Author: © John Popielaski Type: Fiction Novel Publisher/Ordering: Unsolicited Press Publication Date: December 4, 2018 Author Links: Author website Back to the Dragonfly Library Book Description: The primary narrative thread, Albert seeking a more authentic off-the-grid life in Maine, attempts to subvert that archetypal storyline of someone fleeing to the woods to escape […]

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The Apocalypse Variations

Title: The Apocalypse Variations, Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Author: © Marc Taro Holmes Ordering: print, e-book Publication Date: June 22, 2019 Author Link:  website Back to the Dragonfly Library   The Apocalypse Variations Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Marc Taro Holmes, CSPWC, SCA Copyright © 2019 Marc Taro Holmes […]

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