Posts by Johanna Bringhurst

This Week Take a Hike With Tess Taylor Tess Taylor is the author of five poetry collections and editor of the anthology Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands that Tend Them. In 2025, she opened a stage adaptation of her book of poems about Dorothea Lange, titled LAST WEST. Taylor’s next collection,…

This Week Take a Hike With Kevin Goodan Born in Montana and raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation, where his stepfather and brother are tribal members, Kevin Goodan is a poet, author, and firefighter. He joined the US Forest Serviced “hotshot crew,” when he was 18 years old, and served ten years fighting forest fires…

This Week Take a Hike With Homero Aridjis Born in Contepec, Michoacán, Mexico, Homero Aridjis has written over fity books of poetry and prose and has won many important international literary prizes including the prix Roger Caillois, the John Hay Award from the Orion Society, two Guggenheim fellowships, and most recently the 2024 Griffin Poetry…

This Week Take a Hike With Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray was an African American lawyer, labor organizer, writer, and human rights activist who dedicated their life to advocating for women, people of color, and other underserved communities. Born in 1910, Murray experienced profound loss early in life after the death of…

Born in San Jose to a South Indian mother and Irish-American father, Shamala Gallagher holds a BA from Stanford University, an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas-Austin; and a PhD from the University of Georgia. She is the author of Late Morning When the World Burns (The Cultural Society, 2019),…

Karenne Wood was an enrolled member of the Monocan Indian Nation, a poet, and linguistic anthropologist. She earned her MFA at George Mason University and earned her PhD from the University of Virginia, where she taught and advocated for Indigenous communities. In her poems, she often explores themes of identity, cultural heritage, and language. She…