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John ShoptawContinuing Lecturer Wheeler Hall, room 476 Mondays 4:30-5, Wednesdays 4:30-5, Thursdays 2-4 jshoptaw@berkeley.edu Professional StatementFor the past several years I have been writing and teaching ecopoetry and ecopoetics. I am currently exploring the ecopoetics and ecopoetry of climate change. Keats: "The poetry of earth is never dead." Books
--"Whoa!" (long poem), Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics (Spring/Summer 2019) https://www.jstor.org/stable/arion.27.1.0001?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents --"A Tree's Shade Speaks of its Shadow" (poem), Kenyon Review (May/June 2019) https://www.kenyonreview.org/journal/mayjune-2019/selections/ --"Pangolin Scales" (poem), Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges: New Eco-poetry from China and the United States (Manoa Journal, 2019) https://manoaecoissue.poetry.blog/?q=shop --"Round County Almanac" (poem), The Wallace Stevens Journal (Spring 2019) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/719196 --"A Climate-Changed Ecopoetics": Nature and Lyric in the Anthropocene (Conference in Trier, Germany, March 2019) --"Near-Earth Object" (poem) (2019): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/148679/near-earth-object on the poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/148856/how-far-weve-come --"Why Ecopoetry?" Poetry Magazine(Jan 2016) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70299/why-ecopoetry --"Least Concern" (poem) Poetry Magazine (September 2016) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/90296 --"Dickinson's Civil War Poetics" The Emily Dickinson Journal (2010) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/408845/summary --"Listening to Dickinson" Representations 86 (Spring 2004) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rep.2004.86.1.20?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents --"Lyric Cryptography" Poetics Today 21 (2000) https://read.dukeupress.edu/poetics-today/article-abstract/21/1/221/20669/Lyric-Cryptography
Near-Earth Object, a new book of ecopoems.
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