Emily Knight
@emilyknight
Poet, Warren Wilson MFA | Director of Outreach & Engagement, Blue Convergence Fund | Healthy environment healthy people | She/Her | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Join us in November for the first inaugural gathering of The Poets for Science. I'll be hosting a panel on This Must Be the Place: Poetry + Science = Wonder at the Natural World! poetsforscience.org/gathering-20... 🦑 #WorldOceansDay #Poetry
🦑 Held a great webinar yesterday for our Climate Resilient Fisheries Webinar Series - the recordings for parts 1 & 2 are coming soon... register for part 3 - this Monday, June 15 at noon EDT (GMT-4). Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi... #WorldOceansDay #WorldOceansMonth #SciComm #Fisheries
🦑 TOMORROW at 2pm EDT (GMT-4) - our second webinar in our Climate Resilient Fisheries series. Come "meet" our newest grantees at Blue Convergence Fund. You can register in our June newsletter. mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
🦑Great event at The Writer’s Center - poems, discussion and the dignity of all people in a true democracy… great to be in community with so many who care.
🦑 Happening next week (Wed, May 27) at 10am ET (GMT-4): Part 1 of our Climate Resilient Fisheries webinar series featuring project teams from our 2025 Engagement Grant RFP. Join: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Dude straight up shoving his face into the chair. I think Melville is done for the day.
🦑 Our May newsletter - @blue-convergence.bsky.social is inviting you to join our Climate Resilient Fisheries webinar series and sharing reflections from our Executive Director, Charlotte Hudson, on BCF's first year. mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
🦑 We have our first cohort of projects from our Climate Resilient Fisheries Program. Projects come from North America to Central America, Caribbean nations, and Africa... learn more: blueconvergence.org/portfolios/c...
🦑 Now live - 11 new projects for our Climate Resilient Fisheries program. Learn all about them in our Apr newsletter. Newsletter: mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
🦑 As someone that works on climate change issues, it’s wild it took me this long to this (or maybe why)…. But this book is so prophetic about what full breakdown would and could be…
🦑 I know these days the fight for a healthy planet feels overwhelming... with this program we're trying to flip the narrative - reset the relationship between people and nature. @blue-convergence.bsky.social Feb newsletter shares what's next for Ocean Biodiversity: mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
Our February newsletter from @blue-convergence.bsky.social is out - join us for Ocean Biodiversity (forthcoming RFP!) and a little poetry! mailchi.mp/blueconverge...
🦑 We're at it again! I'm organizing another virtual poetry reading... join us on Mon, March 16, at 8pm ET/5pm PT for a reading featuring contributors to the anthology, The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America's Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders. Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
DC in winter today. It’s been awhile since we had a big one, so I spent a few hours clopping around in it.
Current reading - heartbreaking and necessary and heartbreaking and heartbreaking and…
This is TMI but my cat can get runny poops and it often leads to pancreatitis... so I went to the vet and found a new food that helps... at this time I'd like to announce that Mel just pooped the most perfect Lincoln log but now I'm alarmed that my life is such that this is what makes my whole day.
🦑 So. Many. Responses. Literally from all over the world... at a time when it's hard to feel good about a lot of things know that people are out there fighting for climate resilient fisheries and they're not giving up.
So proud to graduate from Warren Wilson Program for Writers… so many new poems, annotations of poetry, a semester dedicated to a long essay on Sheryl St Germaine and WS Merwin, and full manuscript…
🦑Friends, Tues, July 1 will be my last day with the Lenfest Ocean Program. I will start my new position with @blue-convergence.bsky.social on Mon, July 21. For all working in policy and science, I know how hard things are. Don't give up, keep fighting, we need you now more than ever! #scicomm
Such important work right now and I am so proud I have two friends and fellow poets featured in this timely collection. Also, support your local bookstores! #FreePalestine