Ecopoetry

Poetry with an emphasis on the environment, ecology, ecosystems, empathy towards all living creatures, and providing a voice to nature and its natural processes. Global warming, climate change, and concern around lack of human urgency in the face of those things are frequent themes. Ecopoetry goes beyond nature poetry to include a sense of interconnectedness between humans and the environment and to protest against environmental injustices.

Updated February 14, 2026
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The gift of animals : poems of love, loss, and connection
Deming, Alison Hawthorne
This unique collection of poems from diverse contemporary voices offers a range of perspectives on humans' complex relationship with animals, celebrating and bearing witness to the lives of animals both wild and domestic. Animals have long been a source of...
Call this mutiny : uncollected poems
Santos Perez, Craig
Paper Book
A collection of previously published poems by renowned National Book Award-winning Chamoru poet Craig Santos Perez. The seventh book from award-winning Chamoru author Craig Santos Perez, Call This Mutiny brings together poems that were originally published in journals and anthologies from...
From unincorporated territory [åmot]
Santos Perez, Craig
Paper Book
Experimental and visual poems diving into the history and culture of the poet's homeland, Guam.   This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez's ongoing from unincorporated territory series about the history of his homeland, the western Pacific island of...
That winter the wolf came
Spahr, Juliana.
Paper Book
That Winter the Wolf Came is written for this era of global struggle. It finds its ferment at the intersection of ecological and economic catastrophe. Its feminist and celebratory energy is fuelled by street protests and their shattered windows. Amid oil spills and austerity measures and shore birds...
Nature poem
Pico, Tommy
Paper Book
A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Interview...
Sea change : poems
Graham, Jorie
Paper Book
"Jorie Graham's intricate, sophisticated, and mercurial poems have long been one of the splendors of contemporary American literature." --Village Voice A poetry collection that shows Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham at the height of her considerable powers The New York Times...
The true account of myself as a bird
Wrigley, Robert
Paper Book
From an award-winning poet, a new collection that endeavors to pass along what the things of the earth are telling us Over the course of his career Robert Wrigley has won acclaim for the emotional toughness, sonic richness, and lucid style of his poems, and for his ability to...
Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
Conrad, C. A.
Paper Book
Following their book AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry), CAConrad's Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return shifts its attention from the previous book's focus on communing with animals who...
You are here : poetry in the natural world
Limón, Ada
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection A 2024 NPR "Books We Love" Selection "Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection." -Margaret Renkl, New York Times ...

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