Scott T. Starbuck

In 2014 Scott T. Starbuck said The National Poetry Series accepting support from Exxon was like God asking Satan if he could spare some change for the cause. His book of climate change poems, Hawk on Wire (Fomite, 2017), was selected from over 1,500 entries as a Montaigne Medal Finalist at Eric Hoffer Awards for "the most thought-provoking books." The book, written at a PLAYA climate change residency, was a July 2017 "Editor's Pick" at Newpages.com along with The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury, and was featured at Yale Climate Connections. There is a 24-minute YouTube of his book launch sponsored by La Jolla Historical Society's WEATHER ON STEROIDS EXHIBIT. In addition to being a poet, Starbuck participated in, and presented at, the UCSD Climate Curriculum Workshop, gathering ideas for his science-based poems. His climate ecoblog is Trees, Fish, and Dreams with over 40,000 pageviews from all over the globe, and his “Manifesto from Poet on a Dying Planet”is at Split Rock Review < https://www.splitrockreview.org/news/2014/9/1/contributor-spotlight-scott-t-starbuck >. He was a core speaker at the 17th annual California Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC), hosted in 2018 by University of California, Santa Barbara. Starbuck and artist Guy Denning < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9BZ1Ro4vo > are finishing Carbonfish Blues with a publication date of November 2018. Denning's drawings, murals, and paintings of activism, refugees, human vulnerability, and realism are known throughout Europe.