Far-sighted guidance for how to be in these times

Announcing publication of a very special anthology

I’m delighted to announce that my essay, “Song of the Chesapeake,” is included in the just-released anthology, Dark Matter: Women Witnessing: Dreams Before Extinction. This collection, selected from the first ten years of the online journal, contains essays, poems, and artwork by 67 women—all of it responding to the many forms of devastation we face in these times.¹

The collection is edited by

Lise Weil

, Gillian Goslinga, Kristin Flyntz and Anne Bergeron. The nine sections have titles inspired by pieces in the anthology:

• To Witness,

• Fired Anew: What it Takes to Heal,

• The Grammar of Animacy,

• What We Know in Our Bones,

• Songs of Undoing,

• I Am Nothing without My Dead,

• Healing with Land and Ancestors,

• The Music of Grief, and

• What it Takes to Breach.

My essay was first published in 2016. I’m honored that it’s returning at this fraught time, and in such powerful company.

“Dark energy, dark matter, we don’t know what it is, no one does, but we know it is comprised of essays, poems, artwork, dreams, visions, activism, and communications with the nonhuman world responding to the many forms of devastation we face in these times. . . brought . . . to life exactly when the luminosity of Dark Matter is needed.” ~ Deena Metzger, author of Entering the Ghost River, Feral, Writing for Your Life, and more.

Order a copy!

As Jane Caputi writes on the back cover, the book offers "far-sighted guidance on how to be in these times." Judy Tsafrir, MD calls it "an essential transmission." Learn more and order at Shop Ingram.

Launch events!

To celebrate publication, a series of online events will involve readers from the book. The first event is on Sunday March 9 at 7:00 p.m. ET. All are welcome! Email me for the zoom link: julie.gabrielli - at - gmail - dot - com.

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1. Substackers in this anthology include

Alex C. Eisenberg