Poetry Thursday: Climate Poetry

In this summer of extreme weather events, I decided to devote this episode of Poetry Thursday to the poetry of extreme weather and climate. Poems shared: Dickinson, Emily. 26. "The Storm." In the public domain. Doolittle, Hilda, or H.D. "Storm." In the public domain. Frost, Robert. "Fire and Ice." In New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. Henry Holt and Co., 1923. Also in the public domain. Parini, Jay. "Some Effects of Global Warming in Lackawanna County." In New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015. Beacon Press, 2016. Fisk, Molly. "Particulate Matter." in Rattle, November 15, 2018. Solie, Karen. "Smoke." In Wellwater. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2025. Olds, Sharon. "Tornado Imagined from Far Away." In The New Yorker, December 1, 2025. #poetrythursday #poetry community #climatechange #booktubecommunity