A poem for environmental justice

Flint, Michigan water plant tower, photo courtesy of Wikipedia

Here’s another late publication announcement (here’s why), but the publishers were late on posting my work, and others, after they announced it. In April 2022, the St. Paul Almanac publicized the winners of its Environmental (In)justice in Mni Sóta Maḳoce (Minnesota) Storytelling Contest held in collaboration with the University of St. Thomas Sustainable Communities Partnership. A poem of mine was one of the six winners; I announced it here in my blog.

The contest holders quickly paid us winners our prizes, but our works were not published until December. Here’s the direct link to my prize winning poem, dedicated to all us environmental injustice-surviving “Children of Michigan.”