On Extraction Extinction Poems

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.