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Category Archives: Poetry
Six Recent Publications
More recent publications on place-based learning, science education, poetic inquiry, social justice, field schools, and teacher education.
“GPS Ecocache: Connecting Learners to Experience and Place” with Jesse Jewell
Article in American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy
“The jaguar walk: Reflections from the Amazon Field School”
In Transformative Dialogues
More Presentations! 2019–2020
Design your own place-based, cross-disciplinary session (with Daniella Roze)
Classrooms to Communities: Connecting People, Place and Planet
October 25, 2019
UBC
More info here
Discovery Day Biology Lab Tour (with Christine Takhar)
Surrey Professional Development Day
November 8, 2019
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Poetry Reading
White Rock & Surrey Writers’ Club
The Cecilia Lamont Literary Contest
7pm, November 20, 2020
White Rock Library
Poetry Circle
President’s Dream Colloquium event
November 29, 2019
W.A.C. Bennett Library Room 7100
Simon Fraser University
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Where the Sidewalk Ends (with Michael Maser) – CANCELLED
President’s Dream Colloquium event
12-1:15pm (meet at Georgia & Denman bus stop, north-side)
December 4, 2019
Vancouver, BC
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Poetry Reading (for Landscape|Interrupted Gallery Opening by Bad/Good)
President’s Dream Colloquium event
Conduit Gallery: 165 East Hastings
December 5, 2019, 7-9pm
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Creative by nature: When art and science collide
KPU Arts Speaker Series
March 11, 2020, 1-2pm
Cedar Conference Center
Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC
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Healing nature: Forest bathing and the wisdom of trees
KPU-Science World Speaker Series
June 9, 2020 POSTPONED
Science World Vancouver
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Ecopoetics of the Amazon
My latest publication: Poetic Inquiry as Social Justice and Political Response (Vernon Press, 2019).
My chapter is “Ecopoetics of the Amazon.”
Available at 24% discount (using code CFC15385544F on checkout): https://vernonpress.com/book/710
Recent Publications
Here are some of my recent publications, on varied topics including science education, experiential learning, poetic inquiry, and Goethe’s gentle empiricism.
“Romanticism and Science Education: Nature as a Poem”
European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education
Forgotten Forest
our Sri Lankan driver peers ahead
through a windshield wet with rainforest
each dip and potholed turn
throws my stomach to the butterflies
I scan the sleepy morning mist
a veil for verdant wisdom
my heart opens
to a wild, untamed touch
on foot, the terra cotta trail caresses
lined by leeches waving suckers
seeking the offspring of my marrow
our guide pulls from a magic pouch
salt to mask palpitating flesh
…
Family Tree
maple matriarch, pondering
proud gargoyle over the forest path
one end in rich darkness
the other—leaves cling to green
reaching for a star
bark wanes, branches wither
replaced by knots and galls
on a once slender trunk
time-bent axis a crooked column …
I Do
I commit
to buy us a house
with a magnificent mortgage
I shall work
seven days a week
to help pay the cleaning lady
I will take
bank loans
so we can holiday
in the hill towns of Tuscany
I will earn
the money we need
to put the kids in daycare
before their first birthday
I guarantee
that 6:45 to 7 pm
every second Sunday
will be reserved for our time
I will hire
a secretary
so I never forget
our anniversary
I sincerely vow
in richness and in wealth
to secure us
a divorce