From Winter 2020 Explore This Issue Who We Are as Floral, Faunal, Mineral Beings By Brenda Iijima From the Winter 2020 Issue Brenda Iijima is the author of multiple collections of poetry, most recently Remembering Animals (Nightboat Books, 2016), and editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat, 2010). She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. ← Surrounded by Peach Trees, President Clinton Speaks to My Fourth Grade Class [2020 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize Featured Finalist] → Spontaneous Meditations on Immediacy and Distraction (concerning collective national psychology and by extension general planetary thinking)