Poets find honey in the subject of bees, also worry about losing them
Bees have fascinated poets at least as far back as Virgil, both as remarkable creatures worthy of study and as metaphors for some aspect of human behavior.
"We are bees then; our honey is language," writes Robert Bly in "Words Rising," one of many 20th- and 21st-century poems included in a new anthology, "If Bees Are Few: A Hive of Bee Poems." It makes for good summer reading, especially if you have a meadow handy.
Art and Posthumanism: Cary Wolfe in conversation with Art after Nature series editors Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard.
Life in Plastic: Petrochemical fantasies and synthetic sensibilities, with Caren Irr, Lisa Swanstrom, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, and Daniel Worden.
Live: A book launch for We Are Meant to Rise at Next Chapter Booksellers features Carolyn Holbrook, David Mura, Douglas Kearney, Melissa Olson, Said Shaiye, and Kao Kalia Yang.
