Last month, as a winter storm chilled Louisiana and much of the country, I sat in my armchair and read “Diving Into Nature,” a new poetry collection inspired by the skies, trees, fields, rivers and woods that help define our corner of the world.
Produced by Portals Press, a small publisher based in New Orleans, the anthology includes 70 poems by 66 poets, all with ties to Louisiana. Eight writers who have served as Louisiana’s state poet laureate are part of the mix.
January’s ice and wind offer a regular reminder that nature, whatever its bright gifts and beautiful moments, isn’t uniformly benign…