ASLE Spotlight 2023-24, Episode 1: Collaboration and Community
This episode was recorded Friday, November 3, 2023
Co-Hosts: Petra Kuppers and George Handley
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:Mildred K. Barya, The Animals of My Earth School
“In the compassionate, playful, fable-like poems of The Animals of My Earth School, Mildred Kiconco Barya awakens us to the vividly singing, fully alive, non-human communities surrounding us. These poems demonstrate poetry’s unique ability to prick us from our self-involved numbness and awaken us to wonder. There is great solace, tenderness, and innocence here—the kind of innocence capable of apprehending the creatures ...