shaking her
upside down
piggybank earth
Lisa Anne Johnson
TRASH PANDA
Welcome to Trash Panda
Trash Panda is a biannual print journal for the expression of real life in the Anthropocene in the form of modern haiku, senryu, and short form poetry. If you can express a piece of your experience well in 17 syllables or less, you can find a home here. Trash Panda unflinchingly faces the reality that "nature"today is dominated wholly by the presence and impact of humanity. Every poem should consider and reflect that truth, and each volume should serve as a window into the authentic human experience of we human animals in the ecosystem of our own creation.
What is a Trash Panda?
The Trash Panda (Procyon lotor) is a resilient adapter, thriving on our rapidly changing planet. Opportunistic non-specialist scavenger species like raccoons, affectionately referred to as "trash pandas" will ultimately be the surviving wildlife inheritors of the eco-reality that human impact is currently sculpting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon
What is the Anthropocene?
Distinguished from previous epochs of life on Earth by the dominating influence of human activity, the Anthropocene is simply now.
Who is the Editor?
Trash Panda is edited and published by Lisa Anne Johnson, a biologist and haiku poet. Lisa offers Trash Panda as art therapy for haiku/senryu and short form poets voicing their experience of living in an environment dominated by the impact of 8 billion human beings. Trash Panda was born out of her personal desire to tell the truth about the experience of living in this period of mass extinction and planet wide ecosystem disruption. Trash Panda is a gathering place for poets that share that need, and they come from countries all over the globe. Together, the poems in Trash Panda offer a unique window into a truly modern and relevant shared human experience.