One of the advantages of our new format—fewer pages and more frequent publication—is a greater flexibility and the opportunity to be more adventurous. In this issue of the Kenyon Review we flex those muscles for the first time, offering a special section devoted to poems that share ecological themes and concerns. EcoPoetry as it’s been dubbed.
Assembled—cultivated, as it were—and introduced by our poetry editor, David Baker, these poems are varied and various. Some were solicited, and others arrived in the natural sluice of submissions. One thing they all share, however, directly or indirectly, is a sense of urgency. Poets have been writing about nature since the beginning of time, of course. But never before has nature itself felt any less than permanent or perpetual: changing always and always remaining the same.
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