Taking Solace in the Ecofeminist Poetry of Mary Oliver

By: Diane Meyer

Outlets: Minnesota Women's Press

Published: September 2, 2026

Words: 1,877

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago


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An attempt to remember our place in the family of things amid the chaos.

I realized how dizzyingly high above nature humans believe ourselves to be when I started writing about data center development last summer for the Minnesota Women’s Press. Considering the effects of noise and light pollution, the dangers to our state’s finite groundwater, and the large-scale ecosystem disruption brought on by data center development — and the energy …

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