Julie Swarstad Johnson, an archivist and librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, has served as poet in residence at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. She is author of the collection ...

but when you find a poem you can understand and appreciate, it can unlock a world of beauty and emotion. On a day like Earth Day, while there is a lot of celebration of Earth's wonder and beauty ...

Since Katrina, our cultural landscape has changed ... Those poems will exist in the context, as they do in “Turned Earth,” of poems that are looking more outward. I'll just mention one ...