CANARY: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis (Winter 2011-2012)
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Courtesy Persimmontree.org
Editor, Gail Entrekin
Published by Hip Pocket Press
Managing Editor, Charles Entrekin
Art Editor, Carol White
All work reprinted by permission of authors
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.
Issue Number 15, Winter 2011-12
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Northing | Clara Quinlan
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After Apples, Listening | Tom Sheehan
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Chinook Coming Home | Penelope La Montagne
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Folding Together| M Jackson
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Oak Tree Grove | Allegra Jostad Silberstein
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Rebellion of the Salinas | Robert Coats
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Release | Lissa Kiernan
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Remnants | John Smith
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The Deep Frozen Desert | David Chorlton
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The Night the Crickets Began To Sing | Gail Larrick
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Tree-Trimmers | Eileen Malone
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Wind as Conceptual Artist Lois Marie Harrod
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