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  • noun Poetry with a strong ecological message or emphasis.

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eco- +‎ poetry

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Examples

  • The huge project I'm working on is an anthology of contemporary ecopoetry, coedited with Laura-Gray Street, that Trinity University Press will publish in a couple of years.

    Poetry Blog of 32 Poems Magazine 2009

  • With Laura-Gray Street she is coediting Earth's Body, an international anthology of ecopoetry in English which Trinity University Press will publish in

    Poetry Blog of 32 Poems Magazine 2009

  • About how an ecopoetry should do all sorts of work and also some about when it isn’t doing any sort of work at all, or what I want to call the “March of the Penguins” problem, where something might seem to be deliberately covering over or ignoring something crucial about environmental crisis.

    swoonrocket jms 2009

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