Susan Barba is the editor of American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide (Abrams Books, 2022), winner of the 2023 American Horticultural Society Book Award, and the author of Fair Sun (Godine, 2017) and geode (Black Sparrow Press, 2020), a finalist for the New England Book Awards and the Massachusetts Book Awards. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and her poems have been translated into Armenian, German, Romanian, and Swedish. She works as a senior editor for the New York Review Books.
Nature's Nature
Summer 2024
Comma, Question Mark
Comma, question markare common names of butterflies.When I learned the names of flowers I’d seen all my life I felt complete.I walked the dirt roadwith a childand told herchicory, and […]
Nature's Nature
Summer 2024
Mountains Are Mountains
Watch it he said and so I didto see what might emergewhat x-ray in my mind what echocardiogram Rewind the mixtape tothe start we lay on the ruggazed at the […]
Nature's Nature
Summer 2024
Untitled
Here she can breathereceive the raintap rootbud burstwhat is interred in her livesThe birds abovefind openingsand land thereflowers look to flowers and open