Local Poets Speak Their Minds localnewspasadena.com/2025/local-p...

I am honored to have The Canyon featured in Paw Prints, the newsletter of the Eaton Canyon Nature Center Associates. www.ecnca.org/wp-content/u...

May be of Eaton Canyon interest: "Wildfire Damage Assessment over Eaton Canyon, California, using Radar and Multispectral datasets from Sentinel Satellites and Machine Learning Methods"n sciforum.net/manuscripts/...

Hart Crane in Altadena (November 1927-March 1928) localnewspasadena.com/2024/hart-cr...

My poems with photos by Susan Hopkins, Tom Mills, and @edgarmcgregor.bsky.social. Proceeds to fund educational exhibits in the rebuilt Eaton Canyon Nature Center. Available at Bookshop, Amazon, and Barnes and Nobles. Link in pinned post.

Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself

the wonderful 2025 Altadena Poetry Review Anthology altadenapoetryreview.com/2025-antholo...

Photos Saturated with Contrast localnewspasadena.com/2025/photos-...

Life Before the Fire is the Focus of Robert Savino Oventile's 'The Canyon' localnewspasadena.com/2025/life-be...

New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! We talk about wildfires ecologies, poetry and symbiosis, and the importance of walking slowly. Plus @cymene.bsky.social is back! cenhs.libsyn.com/237-the-cany...

shoutout to this iNaturalist user who appears to be an ROV pilot in the gulf of mexico and posts occasional biological observations, including A GODDAMN TANINGIA ATTACKING THE ROBOT ARM OF THE ROV www.inaturalist.org/observations...

On the wonderful podcast Cultures of Energy, I talk with @dominicboyer.bsky.social about Eaton Canyon, the Eaton Fire, and my book The Canyon! cenhs.libsyn.com/237-the-cany...

1913, the US, a school in Chicago, 5th graders present on and discuss with sophistication the emergence and dynamics of Pleistocene ice sheets, such as the Labrador, and their teacher explains how CO2 levels in the atmosphere determine climate. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

My essay "Let the Portals Open," about d. Sabela grimes's Afrofuturist work "Parable of Portals." localnewspasadena.com/2025/let-the...

Travels Through Our Aztlán localnewspasadena.com/2025/travels...

I'm starting a rumor that Taylor Swift is informally transitioning from her Holocene to her Anthropocene epoch.

enjoying this data while I still can

On F, Sept. 26 at 7pm, at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social, I will be talking about The Canyon, an homage to Eaton Canyon. Proceeds from sales of The Canyon will fund the replacement of educational exhibits lost in the Eaton Fire at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center. vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

today on the walk

touching grass

Announcement: I am one of four people on a €1.6 million grant to study human and primate learning during the Pleistocene. A website will be up later this year. The Zoomorphology of Gestures: Interspecies Learning and Technical Invention in Early Human Evolution (ZOOGESTURES)

An interview about The Canyon up at the wonderful My Eaton Canyon website! myeatoncanyon.com/the-canyon-r...

"There is no map for this territory. We are incapable of comprehending what is happening or where we are headed." I talked with @rsoventile.bsky.social about IMPASSE for @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social www.diacriticsjournal.com/embracing-pe...

My interview at the @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social blog with @royscranton.bsky.social about his new book Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress (published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social) www.diacriticsjournal.com/embracing-pe...

If you wrote a poem today, and it's not about Pasadena, so you didn't submit it to Local News Pasadena, what are you even doing? localnewspasadena.com/poetically-s...

SPANISH LESSON  localnewspasadena.com/2025/spanish...

The Canyon, available for preoder now @barnesandnoble.com too! Proceeds donated to rebuild the Eaton Canyon Nature Center. And check out the Timothy Morton blurb! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-canyon...

My Father, Michael Madsen localnewspasadena.com/2025/my-fath...

My latest, about an art exhibit, "Art and Politics Get Shady" localnewspasadena.com/2025/art-and...

Wildfire Community Listening Session at the Pasadena Playhouse on Saturday localnewspasadena.com/2025/wildfir...

Art and Politics Get Shady localnewspasadena.com/2025/art-and...

this reminds me of the period in american politics when pundits would demand that any black politician of note — really, any black person in politics with a national audience — “condemn farrakhan”

@ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Please consider my book The Canyon for an episode. The book is an homage to Eaton Canyon in the wake of 2025's Eaton Fire. Proceeds donated to rebuilding the Eaton Canyon Nature Center. More details at the Bookshop listing for the book. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Another review of The Canyon!: “[T]his book requires multiple readings and with each exploration, there is always something new to examine and enjoy. [...] a heartfelt portrayal of nature and its biodiversity." featheredquill.com/the-canyon/

Hardcover of The Canyon now available for preorder. Proceeds donated to rebuild the Eaton Canyon Nature Center. And check out the Timothy Morton blurb! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH1GW1F6/

Hakeem Jeffries has reportedly told allies that if Zohran Mamdani wins, he can't become Speaker of the House. Leaders like Jeffries see this fight as existential for their control of the party: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/party-cont...

I caught Alexa listening to the OOO lecture playing on my computer.

today on the walk

You will either understand climate change before it radically alters your life or after it radically alters your life. There is nothing else.

My book of poems, The Canyon, a meditation on Eaton Canyon, is now available for preorder @vromansbookstore.bsky.social , a beloved Pasadena bookstore. vromansbookstore.com/book/9798891...

Scenic Route Ahead: Where Paintbrushes Met the Pacific localnewspasadena.com/2025/scenic-...

Black August Film Festival: Two Friends Take on the American Dream localnewspasadena.com/2025/two-fri...

Out soon from @openhumanities.bsky.social, Tom Cohen's Black Ops, very much on the leading edge of literary thought re the accelerating ecological emergency. www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

A review of The Canyon! readersfavorite.com/book-review/...

I'm excited to have *The Canyon* available @bookshop.org Proceeds donated to rebuilding the Eaton Canyon Nature Center, lost to the #EatonFire. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Canyon--poems about and photos of #EatonCanyon. Proceeds donated to rebuilding the Eaton Canyon Nature Center destroyed in the #EatonFire. And check out Timothy Morton's blurb! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Is @angrygablepress.bsky.social thanked in the acknowledgments page as the first publisher of "ESCHSCHOLZIA CALIFORNICA"? Why yes, yes indeed! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH1GW1F6/

Is @heimatreview.bsky.social thanked in the acknowledgments page as the first publisher of "Coast Live Oak"? Why yes, yes indeed! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH1GW1F6/

Is @thebelfastreview.bsky.social thanked in the acknowledgments page as the first publisher of "Remnants"? Why yes, yes indeed! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH1GW1F6/