Thomas Winfield Marie

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Thomas - poet and ecologist- plants, climate change, human geography. He/him and she/her. Buy my chapbook! https://bottlecap.press/products/causes

WOMA Against the black stack of the mountain the pitch of the wind drops Bring me starvation food pine bark bread dark dust, pine in the lungs lark in the gone-pine stark on the tongue Bruised by the axe back back-breaking, bread-baking resinating voice of the hungry mountain We will want for another winter
LODGINGS Passing storm brings nightlong heat lightning and we are still singing the wintering song the one with the long longing the tanagers’ black wings dark orchards full of glossy tangerines full of migrators voyaging passerines only as gone as the stars are gone we passengers of the wind.
Colorful kids comic. Text: "Plants take a long time to: grow, change, adapt - to evolve! It can take millions of years. When a type of plant grows in the same place their long ago ancestors grew, they are a native plant. They have many connections to: birds, insects, microbes, and human beings. Over time, all the living beings that make up an ecosystem grow to fit each other just right! So, native plants have deep root. "Native plant" means old, rooted, and well-connected - not "never-changing". Illustrations of plants in ecosystems.
Text reads: Every map has a dent Every dent is a river Every river evident Even those gone forever.
MAST YEAR — when the ground was brown, soft down brown, burrows in butternuts brown, broken open in the chipmunks warren brown enough even for the starlings pine grain of their feathers fine gold on squill on brown — the acorns glossy the carrot’s bitter crown the blackberries round the cattails brown somewhere else the sky was brown crowded armfuls of light light, like any boon never going away so long as you never ever put it down
Cover image of Natural Causes by Thomas Winfield Marie Nuhfer. A woodcut illustration of an ash branch obscuring a swallow in flight on a sage green background.
A watercolor and ink painting of Wei Wuxian gazing up into Lan Zhan's eyes. They are surrounded by lotus leaves and blossoms, bottle gentians, and pine branches in soft pastel colors.
A zine about how scientific funding impacts Massachusetts. The title is "Scientific funding is being frozen and cut by DOGE, but what does scientific funding do?" The first two pages have examples of NSF proposals funded in MA in 2024. The third page describes some of the impacts of a pause in funding and links to an article about medical trial participants losing care. The fourth and fifth page gives financial statistics about how the NIH and NSF contribute to MA's economy and who are employed as a result. The last page emphasizes that public science keeps the state fed, healthy, safe, and employed, and links to 5calls to encourage calling representatives. The back cover has links to other organizations including the Union of Concerned Scientists and 500 Women Scientists.
A survey recruitment poster which reads: Participants needed for invasion risk assessment study. Study overview: Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst are looking for participants in a study about the information that ecological professionals use to judge the risk a plant species may pose to an environment. This study seeks professional experience around risk assessment of non-native plant species in the United States. What is required? Eligible participants will conduct a short online questionnaire, estimated to take approximately 20 minutes to complete. You may qualify if you: are at least 18 years old & have professional experience with assessing non-native plant risk in the United States. To learn more please contact the lead investigator: Thomas Nuhfer, PhD Student. tnuhfer@umass.edu. Please share with your networks! Survey link: tinyurl.com/plant-study. End text. The poster also includes a QR code.
Two black cats in a rocking chair. One is sitting on another so it looks like one cat with two heads. The cat being sat on is staring right at the camera and looks fed up