In this episode we follow bird migrations from Alaska to South Carolina, admire sunsets with strangers, and make stops along the way for raven and moose on a journey to Yosemite and Denali National Park and Preserve with J. Drew Lanham. 

Guest Bio: A native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. He is a birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist who has published essays and poetry in publications including Orion, Audubon, Flycatcher, and Wilderness, and in several anthologies, including The Colors of Nature, State of the Heart, Bartram’s Living Legacy, and Carolina Writers at Home. An Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University, he and his family live in the Upstate of South Carolina, a soaring hawk’s downhill glide from the southern Appalachian escarpment that the Cherokee once called the Blue Wall. 

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In this episode, we listen to the story of writers, Kimberly and Joshua Williams--from how they met to how they create together as a couple. We also hear about Kimberly's memoir, "Haunted Bodies, Haunted Hearts," the practice of seasonal writing, red clay people, passed down recipes, and how family and land shape who we are today. 

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In this episode, we hear about Amy Irvine's new book, Almost Animal, and learn how we can expose roots of generational trauma to build a foundation of joyful resistance. 

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In this episode, we embark on a journey through words, rutted roads, writing workshops, and Idaho backcountry with author and teacher, CMarie Fuhrman. As we travel over uneven and rocky terrain, we learn how to trust in the unknown and continue moving forward until we find the magic. 

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In this episode, we reflect on our connection with nature, honor reciprocal relations with all living beings, and trade out fear and darkness for an "ocean of light and love" with Author and Botanist, Susan J. Tweit. 

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In this episode, we embark on a journey through wonder on and off the page with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. As we navigate through hardship and grief, we find infinite possibilities in the power of adjusting our minds and hearts to allow our paths to unfold. 

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"No matter where we are, the natural world is all around us." 

In this episode, we follow Deb Matlock's journey through Wild Rhythms and discover how we can strengthen our connection to our wild selves and the more than human world. 

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In this episode, we discuss the Rights of Nature Movement and how poetry, art, and action can be wielded as tools of resistance to protect what we love. 

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This week's episode leads us through beginner's mind, hollow bone, the long view, and practical poetry, as we journey through joy with Poet Laureate and Visual Artist, Wendy Videlock. 

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In this episode, we share ideas of how we can write a new story and paint a different picture of this world by envisioning change and acting toward solutions.

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