Frontmatter and backmatter from What To About Trees, from which most of these poems came:
What to Do About Trees/Risa Bear/Copyright © 2016 Risa Stephanie Bear
Stony Run Press
https://sites.google.com/site/stonyrunpress/
ISBN 9781365480522
b y t h e s a m e a u t h o r
100 Poems
Collected Poems
Homecomings
Iron Buddhas
Starvation Ridge
Toward a Buddhist/Permaculture Ethic
for Smallholders and Others
Viewing Jasper Mountain
Some of these poems have appeared in the journals Bellowing Ark, Sand River Journal, New Zoo Poetry Review, Lynx: Poetry from Bath, Aerious, Disquieting Muses, Ariga: Visions, Writtenmind, Rockhurst Review, and the chapbook series Cedar Bark Poets. "Cityscape with Pink Rose" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Risa Stephanie Bear, a retired forester, printer, and librarian, farms one acre in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. She holds the M.A. in English and M.S. in Arts Management. She edited and compiled the pioneering e-text website, Renascence Editions.