November’s Featured Poet | Valerie Bacharach

Bryce Canyon Haibun Scents of pine and sage. My footprints mark light snowfall the wind erases. I wander serpentine trails through hoodoos, crumbling walls, unroofed cathedrals, ancient city. Around my wrist, turquoise and onyx beads strung on fragile silver, made by my son before his death. My fingers worry them, count them like a rosary. If I could create our own mythology, mother and son, a…

Kosmos Fall 2021 Gallery of Poets

Kate Meyer-Currey Trailblazers: Opening the Doors of Neurodiverse Perception Welcome to the neurotypical world, neurodivergent changeling. It wasn’t your choice to be born this way, under such a wayward star.  You’ll find equality legislation hasn’t got with our different beat yet; the way is full of pitfalls like closed doors and glass ceilings.  So here are some of my tips to start you off…

The World of Itō Jakuchū

These beautiful polychrome woodblock prints are Meiji era copies (ca. 1900) of original designs (ca. 1771) by Itō Jakuchū (伊藤 若冲, 2 March 1716 – 27 October 1800), a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period notable for his striking modern aesthetic.

Seeking “Ssshhh”

It has been one year since the 2020 derecho decimated this part of the Heartland. The 90,000 sq. mile swath of intense, sustained winds devastated over 65% of the mature tree canopy in the Cedar Rapids corridor.

The Potential of Grassroots Environmental Stewardship

Some years ago, CapeNature launched a highly successful land acquisition project called the Stewardship Programme. It offers incentives to land owners to make land available for conservation. These Contract Nature Reserves are designed to establish areas and inter-linked corridors of land to promote conservation—and it works.

Humble Like the Earth

Suddenly, I remembered my vision from the woods. My hand trembled as I closed the Zoom room. I sat down and cried tears of joy.