Jonathan Skinner

his poetry collections include With Naked Foot (Little Scratch Pad, 2008) and Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press, 2005).  He founded and edits the journal ecopoetics, http://www.ecopoetics.org, which features creative – critical intersections between writing and ecology.  His most recent essay, “Thoughts on Things: Poetics of the Third Landscape,” appears in the )((eco (lang)(uage (reader)) (Portable Press at Yo – yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010).  He teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at Bates College in Central Maine, where he makes his home.