Peter Schmidt teaches literature at Swarthmore College. Several of his courses are cross-listed with Environmental Studies or Black Studies. He has published books and articles on William Carlos Williams, Southern US fiction, and other topics. He is currently working on a book on contemporary ecopoetry, which seeks to diversify the canon of essential poets and poems, broaden the ways we read them, and deepen ecopoetry’s roots in the burgeoning field of environmental humanities.
Extinction
Summer 2024
On Extraction Extinction Poems
The Kenyon Review · Schmidt – On Extraction the new Age of Extinctions is now says the silence-that-precedes — you know not what you are entering, a time beyond belief. Who is […]