https://www.heatherswan.net/aboutnjnh daily 0.75 2020-11-12 https://www.heatherswan.net/home-1 daily 0.75 2026-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea3075969a1fe25f1e67a7e/716bc8af-476a-429c-96c7-ff5111bd79b7/Swan%2C+WhereGrass_cvrcomp.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea3075969a1fe25f1e67a7e/0faf63b4-fe7f-4eac-a3df-67d0672b4663/367999544_10161139671336558_7772014888014296739_n.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea3075969a1fe25f1e67a7e/1605141155353-F96BFOZA7FBYRIOHBTCW/swan19.jpg Home - A KINSHIP WITH ASH Like Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, and Annie Dillard before her, Swan is a poet of witness, laying bare the price we pay for pesticide use, fossil fuel extraction, excess and ignorance, but in language so beautiful, lyricism so sweet, that even a world of disintegration and extinction retains reason for meditative joy and celebration. Beset by ravage and shatter, the poet finds "the sweet luck / of this life" in a natural and human world "filled with a wild holiness," for "it is at the edge of damage / that beauty is honed." These are poems of elegy and affirmation, of sensory evocation and deep abiding truths. Exacting and passionate, Swan insists it is "No use measuring / how long sweetness lasts." By any measure, it lasts at least as long as we have poets like Heather Swan, and books like this book of marvels, this marvel of a book. -Ron Wallace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea3075969a1fe25f1e67a7e/4000dd18-53cd-426c-a1d5-82e0799eb1fa/17621786_1001296926668390_6700964094170478152_o.jpg Home - Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field (Winner of the 2017 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award) “This book is pure gold. To understand the life around us is perhaps the most important thing we can do for our planet, and Where Honeybees Thrive is a huge step forward. We are too inclined to think that the tiny animals don’t matter, or that they’re dispensable because there seems to be so many of them. If you know people with that opinion, please give them this book because it can change their minds.” —Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dog https://www.heatherswan.net/home daily 1.0 2026-02-28 https://www.heatherswan.net/take-action daily 0.75 2025-05-12