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How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others? Proceeds from Sublime Planet go to World Wildlife Fund

I recommend Sublime Planet particularly to those individuals who reside on the planet.” ~ Suzanne Lummis, UCLA poetry instructor and LA’s unique contribution to the poetry world

While Howard-Johnson’s poems praise, Ball’s seem to sound a low warning. ’ In Magdalena Ball’s darker meditations, hurt and thirst have entered the world facilitated, in part, by the machinations of civilization. “Sublime Planet begins with Carolyn Howard Johnson’s love poems to the living world, rapturous poems, expansive in spirit yet precise in detail: ‘An impossible moth,/dark eye at its center, opaque//helicopter blades buzz and blur…. Released by award winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball to celebrate Earth Day, this is a collection of poetry that weaves the personal with the universal. It’s an exhilarating collection that breaks boundaries and leads the reader deep into the personal heart of perception. This collection of ecologically oriented poems traverses a wide terrain, moving from the loss of species to the beauty of the natural world, from drought to the exploration of alternative planets.