“108”: An Ecothriller by Former Poet Laura Dheepa Maturi

Dheepa Maturi served as Tweetspeak Poetry’s Poet Laura for 2024. We learned quite a bit about the monarch butterfly, as she wrote several posts for the Tweetspeak-proclaimed “Year of the Monarch.” And we learned she cared deeply about the environment, and she helped readers celebrate Earth Day. We discovered how poetry could be applied to environmental and climate concerns.  

And now we know what she’s been up to since then – publishing an ecothriller, entitled 108.

 

It’s sometime in the near future. The planet’s climate is in crisis, with the air in the cities almost unbreathable. Farmland has been affected as well, raising the possibility of famine. Agricultural production has been divided into 20 zones, and research has been underway to find ways to make those zones more productive.

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Some Tuesday Readings

 

“He showed me where my heart is” (and other ways to praise a dog) -- Pádraig Ó Tuama at Poetry Unbound.

 

The Poem I Read to My Daughter – Pater Savodnik at The Free Press.

 

Saint of the before times – poem by Lisa Marie Basile at Every Day Poems.

 

“I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty,” poem by Ellen Sturgis Hooper – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

“The Charge of the Light Brigade,” poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson – Rabbit Room Poetry.

 

Poetry Prompt: Gathering Flowers – Tweetspeak Poetry.