Happy Earth Day! The Looking Glass Review has taken to celebrating this important day by creating a collection of poetry and artwork, to commemorate the world we live in as well as explore how mankind interacts with it. We thought these pieces were beautiful, just like Mother Nature, so hopefully you do too! Without further ado, welcome to “Earth Day 2024: Nature’s Murmurs.”

About the Contributors:

Jeannette de Beauvoir is a bestselling author of mysteries and historical fiction—but also a poet who lives and works in a very small cottage near the sea in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in the Emerson Review, Avalon Literary Review, the Blue Collar Review, Wild Violet, ZINDaily, Grande Dame Literary, The Raven’s Perch, the Adirondack Review, Perception, and the New England Review, among others; she was featured in WCAI’s Poetry Sunday, and she is the 2020 recipient of the Outermost Poetry Contest national award judged by Marge Piercy. She is a far more cheerful person than her poetry would have you believe. More at jeannettedebeauvoir.com

Terry Trowbridge, a researcher & farmer, has poems in the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Carousel, Lascaux Review, Kolkata Arts, Leere Mitte, untethered, Snakeskin Poetry, Progenitor, Nashwaak Review, Orbis, Pinhole, Big Windows, Muleskinner, Brittle Star, Mathematical Intelligencer, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, New Note, Hearth and Coffin, Synchronized Chaos, Indian Periodical, Delta Poetry Review, Literary Veganism and ~100 more. His lit crit is in BeZine, Erato, Amsterdam Review, Ariel, British Columbia Review, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Episteme, Studies in Social Justice, Rampike, and The /t3mz/ Review. His Erdös number is 5. Terry is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for his first writing grant.

Renata lives in Bangalore and has an affection for traffic because it inspires her unquiet thoughts to settle into patterns. She likes writing, reading, and baking. She has not been published yet.

Kalli Amelya is a Somali-Cambodian artist based in Ottawa. Currently studying at the University of Ottawa for her BFA, she uses painting, photography, and drawing to explore themes of identity and the notion of bodily memory. She finds inspiration through the banalities of life and the subconscious. These are often expressed through a synthesis of abstraction and portraiture.

Aigerim Bibol is a high school junior from the DC area. She is an editor for Polyphony Lit Magazine, BreakBread Magazine, The Trailblazer Review, and Peiskos Literary Magazine. Her work has been published in Iris Youth Magazine, SeaGlass Literary, The Alcott Youth Magazine, and Moonbow Magazine, among others. When she’s not reading or writing, she can be found singing along to Taylor Swift, binge-watching Gilmore Girls, and drinking copious amounts of coffee.