Wild Language
Essays on writing, rewilding, and co-creating with the more-than-human world.
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Do We Want Lawn Language or the Wild Breath of Sweetgrass?
In her remarkable book Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer describes how three hundred and fifty indigenous languages of the Americas were lost or threatened with extinction. Indian children were prohibited from speaking their native t...
Claw and Bone and Wind: Returning Words to the Wild
I am uncomfortably ambivalent about zoos. I love seeing the animals. But I hate that they are caged — domesticated — uprooted from their natural wildscapes. Is a lion the same in a zoo as he is on the savannah? Can a chimpanzee be herself w...
What the Stone Knows: Poetry, Earth Day, and the Third Way
One of the things I love about poetry is that it holds paradox and ambiguity. There’s often tension in a poem — a tension between what is and what we long for, between grief and joy — a tension the poet doesn’t try to resolve, but lets hang...
The Monster We Fed
A story about a monster, a mother, and the strange human tendency to ignore what is right in front of us.
Two hundred years or so ago, a child was born in the West—not in a cozy village or open field, but at the edge of a growing city, w...
Paying Attention: Poetry and the Ecological Imagination
The poet Jane Hirshfield makes a strong case for the ecological nature of poetry in her book of essays, Nine Gates. To be fully human, she contends, we need to engage with the more-than-human world. Poetry—wild, subversive, rooted in dreams...
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Mary Reynolds Thompson is an award-winning author exploring "Wild Language" — a living practice of writing in relationship with the Earth, through which our words and our deeper nature are rewilded. Author of The Wild Scribe (October 2026).
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