On the dashboard, the clock blinks 4:03.

Poems, correspondence, essays, and reportage on how we perceive and write about climate change

How we perceive and write about climate change

Katrina Bello’s exquisite drawings of the vast and the miniscule in nature

Climate change and development threaten the indigenous fisherfolk communities of Mumbai

Every nonhuman living thing is held captive by our actions.

Is it unfair to ask you to hope?

from “A Journey to the West”

I never understood wind

It is a wonder that anything was left of the road.

Hindi na ibinalik / ng mga dayo ang kinuhang / lupain | The settlers never returned / the land they grabbed

ただ空気が得体の知れぬ巨大な獸の吐息のようにねっとりと重たかった。| Only the air was heavy and moist, like the breath of an enormous, mysterious beast.

Elsewhere, a new history / Of touch, not pitted against the land.

How has climate change changed the way we write poetry?

“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier” and “Good Fossil Fuels”

A handful of lessons on saving the world

Two scholars exchange letters on poetry and climate

I want — Evanescence — slowly. After great pain.

the sweet, rich scent, / the cream and white of the magnolia blossom

Mit Jai Inn’s sculptural paintings thrive in abstractions and calculated ambiguity