Crews is a writer, editor, and wilderness advocate who resides in southern Vermont/ancestral lands of Mohican and Abenaki peoples. He cares for work that engages a reconnection to land and place, wilderness, preservation, nonviolence. He currently serves as managing editor for Wild Northeast. He is author of “Wander-Thrush: Lyric Essays of the Adirondacks” (Ra Press, 2018) and “High Peaks” (Ra Press, 2015)—a poetry collection that catalogs his hiking of the “Adirondack 46ers” in upstate New York. New work can be found in “The Hopper,” “Rewilding Earth,” and “Writing the Land.” Learn more at http://www.davidcrewspoetry.com.
González, a Newark native, received her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University, an master’s in poetry from Drew University. She is assistant director for the poetry program at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. González has received invitations to attend VONA, Tin House, Ashbery Home School and BOAAT Press workshops. She’s a CantoMundo Fellow and has been published in Paterson Literary Review, Tinderbox Journal, Anomaly, Vinyl, Waxwing Literary Journal, and others. She is the author of “Wild Invocations” (Get Fresh Book, 2019). You can read more at http://www.ysabelgonzalez.com.
This event was recorded on October 7, 2021.