Press Release announcing the publication of Rainbow Weather:

PUBLICATION DATE: NOVEMBER 29, 2022
These poems are songs for the road ahead, as climate change transforms how we live on earth.
RAINBOW WEATHER
Poems for Environmental Healing

The poems of John Curl are songs for the road ahead as climate change transforms how we live on earth. Today, we find ourselves hurled too soon into a future where all living things must adapt, and human society must change rapidly to survive. We have no choice. We must change.

John Curl’s latest poetry collection, RAINBOW WEATHER, represents word suns, shining a light on the issue of climate change. Curl illustrates the transformative power of words. We are in a long-term climate crisis. The fate of our planet is at stake. This is a time for poetry. This is a time for words that matter to heal ourselves and our environment. Curl provides those words. In his poem “Raindrops,” we see the healing power of not just words but nature:

Rain is alive.
Rain is life.
We living things, all of us, are water droplets.
Consciousness is a form of water.
We are children of the morning dew.

Poet Jack Foley speaks further on Curl’s work:

With a single, ancient, unfashionable word, “Lo,” John Curl changes the game plan of the planet: “Lo! The circle is drawn around us. / The candle is lit. The power of water enters….” “Now,” he argues, is “the ancient boiling point…now/ the ancient flash point of rebellion.” These poems are not so much a call to arms as they are a call to thought—and, beyond thought, to action.

As a society, we have a history of destruction. Mass shootings, wars, an incivility have taken over much of the planet. Yet, in a time of a worldwide pandemic, high inflation, and the overturning of Roe vs Wade, the masses are rising, ready to overcome the challenges. We are making an effort to reshape our world.

People are allowing themselves to envision a better world where we are respectful to our environment and each other. We have no idea how this century will end. However, we do know that words of healing are needed. This is a century for poetry.

The climate crisis marks the end of a cycle that began with the industrial revolution. Since, every end also marks a new beginning, Curl offers poem capsules to take with you into the new beginning. Poems, an energy force of transformation. Let’s transform our world.