I’ve been slow to post my latest columns for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, so here’s a slug of them. Unsurprisingly, they all center on a similar theme – the way our world is heating, burning, every day hotter to the touch and to the thought. It’s burning in real ways, like my article on the …
I sit on a hotel’s tile balcony, halfway to my destination. The midday sun lies hot on stucco walls and tile roofs. Between the buildings I see a sliver of sea; across the bay, a spine of green-sided mountains cuts the sky. Around me gulls call. All colors here are bright, clear, and strong: white …
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In my latest article for The Daily Hampshire Gazette, I contemplated the perspectives of indigenous communities on our relationship to land, partly in preparation for an author event on the same theme at the Forbes Library. Two summers ago, I visited the grasslands of southwestern Brazil. I stayed at a fazenda, a farm property offering …
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On October 11, comics luminaries N.C. Christopher Couch, Denis Kitchen, and Holly Black came to the Forbes Library in a event I curated as writer in residence, to talk about comics and graphic novels – the act of creation, the importance of the medium, and each of their working styles. I found their comments illuminating, …
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As the sugar and red maples finally turn from green to shades of red, peach, orange and yellow here where I sit writing beside the river, it feels like a good time to share my fears for them as New England’s loved and iconic tree in this new ecological future we are both living and …
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This summer, I was interviewed about my chapbook Water Street by New England Public Radio’s Karen Brown for her summer literary series. Summer Fiction: ‘Water Street’ by Naila Moreira “Naila Moreira is a science and environmental journalist who also writes poems. Her new book of poetry, “Water Street,” is immersed in the natural world. She …
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A brief review of Water Street appeared in the Daily Hampshire Gazette yesterday: http://www.gazettenet.com/Book-Bag-10943529 It appears alongside a review for new poetry by the talented area poet Michael Miller.
As the return of spring brings a breath of hope, my latest for the Valley Advocate: a touch of memoir tangled up with politics and science. * As a kid in Brazil, my dad was science-obsessed. When a teenager, he convinced his uncle to bring him chemicals so he could make them react in his …
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What struck me most about poet Ross Gay, during a Q&A at Smith College this afternoon, was his response to many questions: a huge smile, a pause, and then a thoughtful “I don’t know.” When people asked his intentions in any particular poem, and stated what they themselves had taken from it, he often answered, …
Read more “Adoring the fleet world”