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Center for Humans & Nature @humansandnature.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“A collection as diverse & generative as the senses themselves.” — @dghaskell.bsky.social Join editor @gavinvh.bsky.social on Sept 8 at About Time Bookstore in Libertyville IL for the launch of our book, SENSORIA: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature: www.eventbrite.com/e/sensoria-a...

A book with text overlaid on the cover image that says, “SENSORIA. Attending to the wonder and vitality of nature. Bruce Jennings & Gavin Van Horn, editors. Heather Swan, poetry editor.” The cover image is an arrangement of natural and artificial objects assembled like a collage and scanned together to create the book cover. The book is floating over a blurred landscape background at dusk with bokeh lights on the horizon. Text above and below the book says, “September 8th, 6pm. About Time Bookstore.”

Black text against a white background overlaid on an image of purples leaves says, “Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature is out on September 8th. Join us at About Time Bookstore in Libertyville, Illinois to celebrate the release of this new book from Humans & Nature Press. With topics ranging from plant communication to bees’ sense of beauty, animism, and hedgehogs, the essays and poems in Sensoria offer readers a sensory feast, calling attention to the wondrous ways in which humans and more-than-human beings experience and perceive the world. We’ll celebrate with a conversation, reading, and Q&A with the Humans & Nature Press team, including series editor Gavin Van Horn and local writers from Sensoria. 6pm to 7pm, Tuesday, September 8, 2026. About Time Bookstore, Libertyville, Illinois. Link in @humansandnature’s bio for tickets.”

Six small arrangements of natural and artificial objects assembled together and scanned against a dark background appear above and below white text against a dark background that says, “‘A collection as diverse and generative as the senses themselves. Rich in experience and insight, these writings awaken and invite. Through vibrant and compelling stories and juxtapositions, we’re called to deeper perception, embodied engagement, and right action grounded in the sensory riches of the living Earth.’ — David George Haskell, biologist and two-time Pulitzer-finalist author of How Flowers Made our World, Sounds Wild and Broken, The Songs of Trees, and The Forest Unseen”.

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Center for Humans & Nature @humansandnature.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

📚 Introducing SENSORIA, out in the world on Sept 8th. From Humans & Nature Press, SENSORIA awakens our senses to what it means to be human in a more-than-human world. ⚡ Preorders: www.humansandnature.org/shop/sensoria ✍️ Editors: Bruce Jennings & @gavinvh.bsky.social ✍️ Poetry editor: Heather Swan

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Center for Humans & Nature @humansandnature.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

📚 Join us Feb 19th to hear from contributors to Vol. 2, Air of our 5-volume book series, Elementals. What can the vital forces of Earth, Air, Water, & Fire teach us about being human in a more-than-human world? ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0... @daeganmiller.bsky.social @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social

A dark background with a large circular design reminiscent of a mandala or kaleidoscope made of small nature imagery including birds, fish, clouds, plants, and insects has white text over it that reads: “Elementals, Book Club, Vol. 2, Air. Hear from editors & contributors to Vol. 2, Air of Elementals, the newest five-volume book series from Humans & Nature Press. Online, hosted by Point Reyes Books. February 19th, 2025. 6pm-7pm Pacific. 9pm-10pm Eastern. RSVP at the link in our bio and at ptreyesbooks.com/events/calendar”

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Beauties, my memoir launched 2 wks pre-election. My debut novel comes out 2 wks pre-inauguration. Both are about losing everything and how we build muscles to survive with joy and wonder. Let’s get them to readers in this horrible time. Here’s an excerpt from Orion. orionmagazine.org/article/poly...

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Sky of Plankton, Ocean of Stars - Orion Magazine

Recently diagnosed with a kidney disease guaranteed to shorten her life, a woman processes life and death through space and sea

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Daegan Miller @daeganmiller.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

It was a pleasure to edit this essay, *On the Poetics and Mathematics of Air*, by the artist Andrew S. Yang, for the *Air* volume of the Center for Humans and Nature's five-volume collection. bioneers.org/on-the-poeti...

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‘On the Poetics and Mathematics of Air’ | Andrew S. Yang - Bioneers

Yang attempts to take a true measure of the air that surrounds and sustains us and what it means for our world when it is polluted.

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Gavin Van Horn @gavinvh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Just deactivated and deleted my Twitter account. Not heroic--yet cathartic. Reminder of the ephemerality of these digital spaces, where an encouraging word is occasionally gleaned. I'd much rather take a walk with you in person, gaze up together at actual blue skies.

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Gavin Van Horn @gavinvh.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Deadline is approaching for the Leopold residency in the Carson National Forest. Highly recommended. A magical place to write and hang out with hummingbirds, ravens, and violet-green swallows. www.leopoldwritingprogram.org/uploads/6/7/...

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Gavin Van Horn @gavinvh.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Happy Solstice to all. May the elemental joys of the season overwhelm you.

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Gavin Van Horn @gavinvh.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

It’s been a lifelong journey (4th grade report card)

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