Some of our editors at Still: The Journal have been involved in contributing work to benefit Kentucky Natural Lands Trust, a nonprofit working to protect and conserve wildlands, forests, and migratory corridors across Kentucky. We thought about that important work as we grouped this sampler of poems together. We’ve borrowed a phrase from Robert René Galván’s poem “L’heure Bleue – The Time of Evening” to title this sampler, as it perfectly captures the tone and themes of these poems included here. With all of its menace, magnificence, and mystery, the wild places beckon us to be both in the wild and of the wild.
~Marianne Worthington, poetry editor
photo ©Dereck Hammers