Fairy Tales

Noticing

2021-01-11 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Abandoned, Articles, Awe, Beauty, Birds, Childhood Memories, Cities, Climate, Earth as Metaphor, Ecological Grief, Ecopoetics, Fairy Tales, Gratitude, Home, Hope, In Our Lives, Nature Stories, Philosophy, Sea, Short Stories, Transcendence

In “Noticing” a short story by Sara Barkat, two travelers and sewists at the end of the world remember extinct birds and fairy tales.

It’s Already Too Late—A Short Story

2020-10-13 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Beauty, Being a Poet, Childhood Memories, Climate, Ecological Grief, Ecopoetics, Education, Fairy Tales, Home, Hope, Impact, In Our Lives, Nature Stories, Ocean, Philosophy, Plants, Plastic, Sea, Short Stories, Transcendence, Water, Wisdom

House on a hill. River down below. And the rains speckling the grass, dots of cold, salt-ocean.

Winter Stars

2020-10-12 By Sonia Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Books, Climate, Ecological Grief, Education, Fairy Tales, Impact, Nature Stories, Plays, Wisdom, Wonder, Woods

Winter Stars is a mythic tragedy that draws from Celtic lore, to tenderly explore climate breakdown through the relationship of two tussling brothers who, yet, love one another deeply: the Holly King and the Oak King.

What the Moon Saw

2019-04-27 By Hans Christian Andersen Filed Under: Articles, Fairy Tales, Moon, Nature Stories, Trees, Woods

In this lyrical excerpt from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “What the Moon Saw,” we meet a cast of characters who each view the forest and the trees from their own personal vantage points.

Noticing

It’s Already Too Late—A Short Story

Winter Stars

What the Moon Saw

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