CANARY: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis ~ Winter 2010-11
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Behold the original
A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis
Editor, Gail Entrekin
Published by Hip Pocket Press
Managing Editor, Charles Entrekin
Art Editor, Carol White
All work reprinted by permission of author
“The canary in the coal mine” was a primitive early warning system used by miners to alert themselves to poison gases seeping into the mines. If the canary was found dead, it was time to get out quick. As a metaphor, its significance for me includes not only the salvation of the humans, but also the casual loss of the canary, that fragile and innocent bird with its lovely song, sacrificed without a passing regret. So often the poets of a culture are the canaries, the first ones to be hurt by trends so large that they are not immediately visible. This time the poets are raising our voices on behalf of the natural world, which cannot articulate its plight. We must stop destroying the natural world. We are destroying ourselves.
Issue Number 11, Winter 2010-11
- Around Us by Marvin Bell
- Alpha by John Smith
- Canada Goose by Linda Watanabe McFerrin
- Climate Change: Drought by Charles Entrekin
- Containing Multitudes by Elizabeth Schultz
- Downstream by William Kelley Woolfitt
- Encounter by Patricia Fargnoli
- For the Birds: An Appreciation by Alex Cigale
- In the Neighborhood of Full Quiet by Michael Day
- Loons: the dance by Michael Campagnoli
- Pine Speak by Brandon Cesmat
- Sweetgum Country by Ann Fisher-Wirth
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