Light enters the grove : exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park through poetry /

An anthology celebrating the biodiversity and staggering beauty of Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Light Enters the Grove collects 81 poems, each of which reflects its author's unique connection to a living organism found within the park, ranging from white-tailed deer to brown bats and from Jap...

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Other Authors: Malone, Charles, 1979- (Editor), George, Carrie, 1997- (Editor), Harris, Jason, 1991- (Editor), Vasarhelyi, Jennie (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2024].
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreward. Biodiversity in Cuyahoga Valley National Park / Jennie Vasarhelyi
  • Field. Coyote in the valley / Stephanie Ginese
  • Painted-cup paintbrush / Hilary Plum
  • Everyone knows a killdeer means no harm / Mary Biddinger
  • Running / Eros Livieratos
  • Papilio glaucus / Kira Preneta
  • A windfall of American robins / Kari Gunter-Seymour
  • Cuyahoga Valley's dissent collar 2020 / Monica Kaiser
  • Woolly bear: autumnal parade / Leah Graham
  • Poison hemlock / Jonathan Conley
  • The turkey vulture / Andrew Gilkey
  • I plant milkweed on my father's grave / Delilah McCrea
  • Poverty oat grass/subsistence / Haylee Schwenk
  • Song sparrow / Virginia Konchan
  • Nothing common about this dandelion / Cora McCann Liderbach
  • Monarch / Deborah Fleming
  • D. Carota / Jessica Jones
  • Forest. Trillium / Kimberlee Medicine Horn
  • The interrupted fern / Kathleen Cerveny
  • White-tailed deer / Benjamin Rhodes
  • American sweetgum / Caryl Pagel
  • Understories / Andrea Imdacha
  • Beneath the bloom / Judith Mansour
  • May we be more honest about what we are / KJ Cerankowski
  • Winter bloom / Quartez Harris
  • Whitehall terrace / Sylvia Clark
  • Homeownership / Zachary Thomas
  • Cicadas / Cathy Barber
  • Musclewood / Jeff Gundy
  • When the long-ear visited / Michael Loderstedt
  • White-footed mice in winter, Cleveland, 2020 / Michelle Skupski Bissell
  • Variation on wings / Kortney Morrow
  • Mayapple's slow dance / Rebecca Wohlever
  • Resounding through the brush & branch / Bronlynn Thurman
  • Field guide to fleeting moments / Amanda Schuster
  • American giant millipede / Mary Quade
  • That time I found a star in my backyard / Isaiah Hunt
  • A ray of midnight sunshine / Dr. R. Ray Gehani
  • I need glasses for my ears / Sujata Lakhe
  • Candleflame lichen / Clara Britton
  • An artist's bracket / Susann Moeller
  • Upon learning that double samaras also litter the heavens / Steve Brightman
  • Arion Fusca / Ray McNiece
  • A lost letter from a tree to the Japanese honeysuckle / Shei Sanchez
  • Barred owl rhapsody / Courtney Noster
  • Gray catbird on the nest / Theresa G˞ttl Brightman
  • Don't eat the flowers you shouldn't / Chad W. Lutz
  • Blight of the American chestnut / Carrie George
  • A saffron prism / Zach Savich
  • Jack-in-the-pulpit / Michael Buebe
  • Poison ivy / Marina Vladova
  • The eastern red-backed salamander / Tovli Simiryan
  • Funeral bells / Tishon Woolcock
  • Rivers, lakes, ponds, and wetlands. Star jelly / Cameron Gorman
  • Otter theology / Anastasios Mihalopoulos
  • American waterlily / Geoffrey Polk
  • Remember-you-will-die sun / Alyssa Perry
  • Fishing spider / Charles Malone
  • Dance of the green darners / Marion Starling Boyer
  • Ode to spring, peeper / Barbara Sabol
  • Winter walk / Laura Grace Weldon
  • Common pawpaw / Isaiah Back-Gaal
  • The common garter snake / Caitie Young
  • Stairway to heaven: Jacob's ladder / Risha Nicole
  • Upon seeing a red-headed ground beetle I've decided: I'm more about protection of the weak than I am survival of the fittest / Bob King
  • A great blue heron / Dan Dorman
  • The snapping turtle / Jessica Jewell
  • The muskrat makes his bed / Catherine Wing
  • Damsels of the pond / Lindsay Barba
  • Wood duck aubade / Diana Lueptow
  • Sun lovers / Rebekah Ainsworth
  • The common carp / David Hassler
  • Yellow-dusted dreams: the moth hour / Cass Penegor
  • Bluegill / Olivia Farina
  • Warmouth sunfish / Camille Ferguson
  • In which the American sycamore and I are formally introduced / Megan Lubey
  • American fable: a truth as told by American beaver / Katie Daley
  • Ode to the plecoptera / Karen Schubert
  • Ode to a yellow bullhead / Ted Lardner
  • Green heron / Paula J. Lambert
  • Knuckle / Conor Bracken.