Publications
Forthcoming, December 2024 Creature Needs: Wrtiers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, University of Minnesota Press, edited by Christopher Kondrich and Susan Tacent, Foreword by Dr. Lucy Spelman www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creature-needs
creatureconserve.com/
www.upress.umn.edu
WRITING CONSERVATION: A Book-Based Interactive Installation
Compiled by Susan Tacent, Creature Conserve Writer-in-Residence & Lisa Kahn Schnell, Mentor, Creature Conserve Mentorship Program
Writing Conservation developed out of a desire to gather writing that raises questions, poses solutions, mourns and celebrates the world nonhuman animals share with human animals. The writings compiled here are not an endpoint, but a starting point for further conversation around conservation. They are a work in progress and may always be so, as our understanding of what conservation means and how we can be active in conservation must keep evolving. The installation is part of Creature Conserve's Re-Imagining Conservation: From the Ground Up at Swale House, Governor’s Island, NYC
Learn more The artworks included in this exhibition present multiple lenses for viewing our relationships with soils, and prompt the viewer to ask: WHAT IF we imagine human-animal-soil interactions in ways that support healthier lives for all species?
Writing Conservation first premiered at Re-Examining Conservation at Brown University’s Cohen Gallery in Spring 2022. Since then, it has traveled to the What Cheer Writer’s Center in Providence, RI and now to Re-Imagining Conservation here at Swale House.
We invite you, the visitor, to actively engage with these books. Read a text or two, or twenty. Read silently yourself, or aloud to a friend. Add your own written response to one of the many prompts scattered throughout the book. Pose a question for others to ponder. Make your mark, and add to the conversation.
Fiction
Bastion, Solidarity- Rhode Island Stories of, zine, What Cheer Writers, March 2023 www.whatcheerclub.org/_files/ugd/461ecb_761a7c542eba434099dc93789ee4a32a.pdf
Shadow Love, Postnatural Ecologies, ed. Adira Andlay
We Haven't Been the Same Since the Butterflies Flew Away, Slice Magazine, May 2022 slicemagazine.org/we-havent-been-the-same-since-the-butterflies-flew-away-by-susan-tacent/
Clama a Dios, Reckoning Issue #6 January 2022 reckoning.press/clama-a-dios/
Habitat, Coolest American Stories 2022, January 11, 2022
Engaged, Cleaver www.cleavermagazine.com/engaged-by-susan-tacent/
The Other Side of the Fence, Tin House Online tinhouse.com/the-other-side-of-the-fence/
Sirens, Paragraph Planet
The Life of Cats, decomP www.decompmagazine.com/thelifeofcats.htm
Discriminate Affections, Michigan Quarterly Review quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx
Whoever Took Me Here Will Have to Take Me Back, DIAGRAM thediagram.com/13_2/tacent.html
Poke, Ontario Review
Long Spoons, Blackbird blackbird.vcu.edu/v11n1/fiction/nitida_s/spoons_page.shtml
Camel Slap, aka Long Spoons, Finalist, Very Short Fiction Contest, Glimmer Train
The Mayor of New York City, Newport Review
Death Will Be A Peaceful Room, Oasis
Poetry
Passing in the Night, Frequency Anthology #3, forthcoming
On First Listening to Joseph Brodsky Read, The MacGuffin
Laundromat, Amherst Review
Nonfiction
Runnning Water, Mom Egg Review, momeggreview.com/latest-issue/
In a Small State of Poetry: Random acts of poetry help make sense of the senseless, Providence Journal www.providencejournal.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/07/17/in-small-state-of-poetry-random-acts-of-poetry-help-make-sense-of-senseless/42494889/
TRI-X Providence, Missing Providence: An Anthology
Sigmund Freud and the Case of the Underground Man, Dostoevsky Studies
Like the Sound of His Own Voice: Gender, Audition, and Echo in Alastor, Keats-Shelley Journal
Even As We Speak: Women's Voice and the Myth of Echo, Sexuality, the Female Gaze, and the Arts
Interviews
Urgency and Momentum: An Interview with Charles Baxter, Tin House Open Bar tinhouse.com/urgency-and-momentum-an-interview-with-charles-baxter/
Love is What's Needed: Justine Bevilacqua on Growing the Arts and Social Justice in Providence, Philanthropy Women philanthropywomen.org/author/sustac/
Book Reviews
Charles Baxter, There's Something I Want You to Do, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-theres-something-i-want-you-to-do/
Ann Hood, editor, Providence Noir, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-providence-noir/
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-lincoln-in-the-bardo/
Maria Terrone, At Home in the New World: Essays, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-hutling-in-the-same-direction-at-home-in-the-new-world/
Readings
A Tooth Fairy Tale, nonfiction for Stranger Stories' first anniversary on May 30, 2019, AS220, Providence RI
Honored to be featured with creatureconserve.com/ in Poets&Writers' July-August 2021 News Trends section www.pw.org/content/conservation_stories
Pictured below: My beloved fifth grade Expressional Writing notebook!
Forthcoming, December 2024 Creature Needs: Wrtiers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, University of Minnesota Press, edited by Christopher Kondrich and Susan Tacent, Foreword by Dr. Lucy Spelman www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creature-needs
creatureconserve.com/
www.upress.umn.edu
WRITING CONSERVATION: A Book-Based Interactive Installation
Compiled by Susan Tacent, Creature Conserve Writer-in-Residence & Lisa Kahn Schnell, Mentor, Creature Conserve Mentorship Program
Writing Conservation developed out of a desire to gather writing that raises questions, poses solutions, mourns and celebrates the world nonhuman animals share with human animals. The writings compiled here are not an endpoint, but a starting point for further conversation around conservation. They are a work in progress and may always be so, as our understanding of what conservation means and how we can be active in conservation must keep evolving. The installation is part of Creature Conserve's Re-Imagining Conservation: From the Ground Up at Swale House, Governor’s Island, NYC
- May 5 - November 2023
- Opening Reception: May 20, 2023, 1-4 pm
- Artist-Led Events: May 21, 2023, 1-4 pm
Learn more The artworks included in this exhibition present multiple lenses for viewing our relationships with soils, and prompt the viewer to ask: WHAT IF we imagine human-animal-soil interactions in ways that support healthier lives for all species?
Writing Conservation first premiered at Re-Examining Conservation at Brown University’s Cohen Gallery in Spring 2022. Since then, it has traveled to the What Cheer Writer’s Center in Providence, RI and now to Re-Imagining Conservation here at Swale House.
We invite you, the visitor, to actively engage with these books. Read a text or two, or twenty. Read silently yourself, or aloud to a friend. Add your own written response to one of the many prompts scattered throughout the book. Pose a question for others to ponder. Make your mark, and add to the conversation.
Fiction
Bastion, Solidarity- Rhode Island Stories of, zine, What Cheer Writers, March 2023 www.whatcheerclub.org/_files/ugd/461ecb_761a7c542eba434099dc93789ee4a32a.pdf
Shadow Love, Postnatural Ecologies, ed. Adira Andlay
We Haven't Been the Same Since the Butterflies Flew Away, Slice Magazine, May 2022 slicemagazine.org/we-havent-been-the-same-since-the-butterflies-flew-away-by-susan-tacent/
Clama a Dios, Reckoning Issue #6 January 2022 reckoning.press/clama-a-dios/
Habitat, Coolest American Stories 2022, January 11, 2022
Engaged, Cleaver www.cleavermagazine.com/engaged-by-susan-tacent/
The Other Side of the Fence, Tin House Online tinhouse.com/the-other-side-of-the-fence/
Sirens, Paragraph Planet
The Life of Cats, decomP www.decompmagazine.com/thelifeofcats.htm
Discriminate Affections, Michigan Quarterly Review quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx
Whoever Took Me Here Will Have to Take Me Back, DIAGRAM thediagram.com/13_2/tacent.html
Poke, Ontario Review
Long Spoons, Blackbird blackbird.vcu.edu/v11n1/fiction/nitida_s/spoons_page.shtml
Camel Slap, aka Long Spoons, Finalist, Very Short Fiction Contest, Glimmer Train
The Mayor of New York City, Newport Review
Death Will Be A Peaceful Room, Oasis
Poetry
Passing in the Night, Frequency Anthology #3, forthcoming
On First Listening to Joseph Brodsky Read, The MacGuffin
Laundromat, Amherst Review
Nonfiction
Runnning Water, Mom Egg Review, momeggreview.com/latest-issue/
In a Small State of Poetry: Random acts of poetry help make sense of the senseless, Providence Journal www.providencejournal.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/07/17/in-small-state-of-poetry-random-acts-of-poetry-help-make-sense-of-senseless/42494889/
TRI-X Providence, Missing Providence: An Anthology
Sigmund Freud and the Case of the Underground Man, Dostoevsky Studies
Like the Sound of His Own Voice: Gender, Audition, and Echo in Alastor, Keats-Shelley Journal
Even As We Speak: Women's Voice and the Myth of Echo, Sexuality, the Female Gaze, and the Arts
Interviews
Urgency and Momentum: An Interview with Charles Baxter, Tin House Open Bar tinhouse.com/urgency-and-momentum-an-interview-with-charles-baxter/
Love is What's Needed: Justine Bevilacqua on Growing the Arts and Social Justice in Providence, Philanthropy Women philanthropywomen.org/author/sustac/
Book Reviews
Charles Baxter, There's Something I Want You to Do, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-theres-something-i-want-you-to-do/
Ann Hood, editor, Providence Noir, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-providence-noir/
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-lincoln-in-the-bardo/
Maria Terrone, At Home in the New World: Essays, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-hutling-in-the-same-direction-at-home-in-the-new-world/
Readings
A Tooth Fairy Tale, nonfiction for Stranger Stories' first anniversary on May 30, 2019, AS220, Providence RI
Honored to be featured with creatureconserve.com/ in Poets&Writers' July-August 2021 News Trends section www.pw.org/content/conservation_stories
Pictured below: My beloved fifth grade Expressional Writing notebook!
