Brute Neighbors: Urban Nature Poetry, Prose & Photography

DePaul’s Poetry Institute (2011)

Birds have been falling from the sky in droves, causing people to cry apocalypse. While we’re not ready to go that far, it’s a good time to step back and think about the natural world, how one responds to it and lives within it. Some sixty artists have done just that in the groundbreaking new anthology, Brute Neighbors: urban nature poetry, prose & photography, edited by poet Chris Green and environmental scientist Liam Heneghan. The book features some of Chicago’s best writers: Reginald Gibbons, Stuart Dybek, Christian Wiman, Don Share, Christina Pugh, Mark Turcotte, and more.