Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

Society

The Twelve Days (and Months) of Climate Justice Day Six:  Why Can’t a Poem Stop Climate Change?

One of the most powerful antidotes we have to despair – whether in the face of the climate catastrophe that looms menacingly on the horizon, or of the dawn of the Trump era in the United States – is our ability to resist and create, often simultaneously, through our cultural creation – our art, cultures, literature, movies, and music.

January 4, 2017