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Poets on the Power of Nature

Floods, Fires, Storms Fodder for Centuries of Poems

“We in the fields, the watchers from the burnt slope, / Facing the west, facing the bright sky, hopelessly longing / to know the red beauty…” In this 2011 PBS NewsHour video, Jeffrey Yang reads William Everson’s poem “We in the Fields” along with other poems published in Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems From New Directions, an anthology edited by the poet celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of New Directions. Yang’s new poetry collection, Line and Light (Graywolf Press, 2022), is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Jeffrey Yang
Birds, Beasts, and Seas
New Directions
2011
nature
PBS NewsHour
Line and Light
Graywolf Press
Page One
May/June 2022

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