The Other Way Evokes Deep, New Feelings About Life on Earth David Trubridge, a pre-eminent designer based in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, calls The Other Way his love letter to the land. As Kennedy Warne writes in the introduction, “It is also a visual poem. David’s eye for texture and detail, the dance of light …
New Eco-Memoir Recounts 13 Global Journeys as “Love Letter to the Land” Read More »
FAQ Why were you there? On my first two trips there was a reporter on a Greenpeace ship when they had a base at Cape Evans, the Ross Sea. The number of months you lived have there, to date? Four. The number of trips to The Ice? Three or four, depending on how you count. …
I wear a lot of hats and I encourage my colleagues and students to do so, too. Why? We live in times where we can – and each practice informs the others! I also encourage collaboration outside one’s own discipline. Some of my most potent work has come from stepping into worlds that I don’t …
November, 2021, Nonfiction Now, Bi-Annual Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, Disordering Nonfiction, Panel Chair. Paper topic: How We Hear Now, Exploring ecological sound through aural essays during the pandemic November, 2021, Global Antarctica, SCAR-HASS Biannual Conference, Kobe, Japan. Paper topic: It is the Year 1985, ecoactivism in the Antarctic. June, 2021, XX, Association for the Study of …
In The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views of which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given forgetting that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books.” He wrote some of the best …
Views on Antarctica, Nebraska More than a distant continent, Antarctica is a land of the imagination, shaping and shaped for centuries by explorers, adventurers, scientists, and dreamers. The Entire Earth and Sky, a kaleidoscope of legends, stories, field notes, images, reports, history, letters, and research, renders an impression, both vast and microscopic, of the effect …
Blurbs from John D’Agata, Camille Dungy, and Christopher Merrill “A series of absorbing, funny, tragic, and deeply present ruminations…packed with a scientist’s curiosity and an artist’s imagination…a lesson in how to accept, relish and even seek out change. – John D’Agata, About a Mountain “These walks with Leslie Carol Roberts — by turns exhilarating, heart-breaking, and informative …
HERE IS WHERE I WALK: Episodes from a Life in the Forest Read More »
Here are some samples of classes, tutorials, and workshops I teach on Zoom and in-person Life Stories: Creativity, Connection, and Community, How to Walk, Let’s Get Weird When I was a senior in high school, I broke my neck in three places in a horrific car accident. For many weeks, they were not sure I was …
Project Founders: Leslie Carol Roberts, Adam Marcus, Chris Falliers ECOPOESIS is about re-thinking and re-imagining how people see and feel their own ecologies and their roles in times of climate change. ECOPOESIS gathers humans together for a meal or coffee to establish shared, collective contexts and understandings, about local wisdoms, about questions, about anxieties – …