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From Root to Seed lifts up the poetic voices of Black, Brown, and Indigenous writers who have deep historical and current connections to the land, places, and the natural world of the Northeastern region of the United States. The 25 contemporary writers featured in this collection share poetry that engages with nature and land from a wide variety of vantage points, from the grand scale - imaging Sarah Baartman dreaming of boats and oceans - to the minute - an instruction on how to live like a snail. With its mix of emerging and well-established writers, From Root to Seed inserts critical voices into the stream of nature poetry coming out of the Northeast. This brief, but poignant collection serves as reminder that Black, Brown, and Indigenous people have deep roots in this region and continue to thrive here.

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"I am so pleased to have had a chance to spend time with the poems gathered in From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous PoetsWrite the Northeast. What a rich variety of voices! The book makes ""a place for our bodies in these surroundings,"" offering a rich assortment of forms, experiences, and perspectives. I appreciate any collection that creates a space for so many urgent voices and visions. This anthology offers the kind of rich (and enriching) bounty of contemporary poetry that makes the literary world a better, brighter, and more open space. ----Camille T. Dungy, author of SOIL: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden"

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Samaa Abdurraqib lives in Wabanaki territory, close to the ocean and the mountains. Recently, her poetry can be found in Enough! Poems of Resistance and Protest, Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic, Cider Press Review, Writing the Land: Maine, and in her self-published chapbook Each Day Is Like an Anchor (2020). Lis McLoughlin, PhD is founder and director of NatureCulture LLC, and the Writing the Land project. She publishes the Writing the Land anthologies and other books, and produces events such as the online Authors and Artists Festival. nature-culture.net writingtheland.org Shanta Lee is an award winning writer across genres, journalist, visual artist and public intellectual actively participating in the cultural discourse with work that has been widely featured. Shanta Lee is the author of poetry collections poetry collection, GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues (Diode Editions, 2021) her latest illustrated poetry collection, Black Metamorphoses (Etruscan Press, 2023). Her latest work, Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine, is on view at the University of Vermont's Fleming Museum of Art.To learn more about her work, visit: Shantalee.com.

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